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Listen   Listen (2 mins)       Save       Share Russia’s Yandex says data centre shut down after drone attack on social media share-nodes    Share (https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2F5zs8bp) facebook      (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Russia%E2%80%99s%20Yandex%20says%20data%20centre%20shut%20down%20after%20drone%20attack&source=sharethiscom&related=sharethis&via=AJEnglish&url=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2F5zs8bp) x    (whatsapp://send?text=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2F5zs8bp) whatsapp-stroke    (https://aje.news/5zs8bp)  copylink          google       Add Al Jazeera on Google  info      (Smoke billows from Yandex's Sasovo hub, one of the company's five large data centres, following a Ukrainian drone attack)   In this file photo from October 8, Smoke billows from Yandex's Sasovo hub, one of the company's five large data centres, following a Ukrainian drone attack that forced operation suspension at the site, which hosts tens of thousands of servers [File: Reuters]   (https://www.aljazeera.com/author/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458)     By  (https://www.aljazeera.com/author/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458) Al Jazeera Staff , AFPand Reuters   Published On 11 Oct 2026 11 Oct 2026    A Russian data centre run by technology and AI company ⁠Yandex has been shut down after it was hit in a drone attack. No injuries were reported in the attack on the facility in the city of Vladimir, east of the capital, Moscow, the company said on Sunday. 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It is the third attack on the company’s data centres in the last week, as Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate attacks on each other’s technology infrastructure. On Friday, Yandex, which ⁠is heavily involved ⁠in Russia’s AI development and is sometimes referred to as “Russia’s Google”, said its data centre in the Kaluga ⁠region southwest of Moscow was (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/9/ukraine-takes-aim-at-russias-ai-data-infrastructure) struck by ⁠Ukrainian drones and partly ⁠put out of action. A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down Yandex’s data hub ‌in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two of the three supercomputers used ‌to ‌develop the company’s AI model are housed. “We always respond in mirror-like fashion,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday, following the Sasovo strike. “You all know, they have been hitting and continue to hit our data centres. We are responding. 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