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Vedyakhin said all banking systems and online services continued to operate normally and no employees were injured in the attack in the Volga River city of Balakovo, according to the state-run news agency TASS.  Users across Russia nevertheless reported disruptions to Sberbank and its GigaChat artificial intelligence service, as well as several other major online platforms, (https://t.me/tvrain/112570) (according to) according to outage tracker Detector404. The reports did not establish a link between the disruptions and the drone attacks.  NASA’s satellite fire-monitoring system  (https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@47.826,52.008,12.000z) showed  multiple fires in Balakovo.  Saratov region Governor Roman Busargin  (https://t.me/busargin_r/12271) said  “all infrastructure facilities” were operating normally, without identifying Sberbank’s data center as a target. He said one woman was killed and several homes were  (https://t.me/busargin_r/12270) damaged  in the drone strikes.  The attack on Sberbank follows three consecutive Ukrainian drone strikes that disabled half of tech giant Yandex’s data centers. Ukraine says it is responding to Russian attacks on its own data sites.  “You didn’t think it would stop with just Yandex, did you?” Ukraine’s Fire Point arms company  (https://t.me/firepointofficial/413) said  in a social media post Wednesday morning.  Sberbank began construction of the 55,000-square-meter (592,000-square-foot) facility in 2021, promoting the 122.2 billion ruble ($1.4 billion) project as one of Europe’s largest data centers, with completion expected in 2030.   news (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/14/ukraines-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-explained) (Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained) Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained  Read more    Sberbank and its main domestic rival, Yandex, are leading Russian developers of artificial intelligence, with their respective GigaChat and YandexGPT models. State media reported in 2024 that Sberbank’s Balakovo center would host Russia’s biggest supercomputer, which was scheduled to go into operation in 2027.  Russia’s Defense Ministry  (https://t.me/mod_russia/68180) said  its air defense systems destroyed 902 Ukrainian drones over 19 Russian regions and annexed Crimea between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.  Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (https://t.me/mos_sobyanin/22127)  said  “most” of the 493 Ukrainian drones flying toward the region were neutralized, 180 of them on direct approach to the capital.  The attacks on Moscow prompted civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia to  (https://t.me/favt_info/8648) restrict  arrivals and departures at  (https://t.me/favt_info/8653) all four  Moscow airports after 10 p.m. Tuesday, in the second prolonged shutdown of Moscow’s airports in less than a week.  At Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo alone, 410 flights were delayed and 137 canceled, the news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti  (https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/56007) reported  .  Dozens of planes were  (https://t.me/tass_agency/400160) diverted  to other airports including St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo. One flight from Egypt to Moscow  (https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/55999) landed  in the Belarusian capital Minsk.  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