Reports from BleepingComputer and The Record said a drone attack shut down Yandex’s Vladimir data center on October 11, the third reported hit on the company’s facilities in Russia within days. Reports dated October 12 described disruptions across Yandex Cloud and consumer services.
Three sites, three reported outcomes
The sequence began at Sasovo, covered in NeoTeo’s earlier report on the fire and shutdown, then continued through Kaluga and Vladimir.
| Facility | Reported incident date | Reported operating impact |
| Sasovo | October 7–8, 2026 | Operations halted |
| Kaluga | October 9, 2026 | Part of the infrastructure disabled; operations degraded |
| Vladimir | October 11, 2026 | Facility shut down |
October 12 reports described uneven service impacts
In its October 12 account, BleepingComputer reported performance or availability issues in Yandex Cloud’s Console, API, IAM, Container Registry, databases, S3 storage and Kubernetes. Compute, AI Studio and security services were partly available; Monium was offline. Bloomberg reported that Yandex Cloud was still operating in limited mode while Search and Alisa were gradually returning.
The Register attributed a separate measure to NetBlocks: Yandex Cloud connectivity was at 30% of normal on October 11. That figure describes connectivity, not the availability of every Yandex service.
The disruption also affected consumer services. The Moscow Times reported user problems in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Yerevan, Armenia. The Register reported that Yandex Pay went offline. Dima Pirogov, head of Yandex’s FinTech division, said customer funds were not stored in data centers and reassured Yandex Pay users, according to The Moscow Times.
One Yandex Disk customer reported failed downloads
One Yandex Disk customer reported missing thumbnails, failed downloads and HTTP 302, 504 and 500 errors beginning October 8. The account describes that customer’s retrieval problems; it does not report that the files were deleted.
Yandex advised customers to use alternative recovery plans
Yandex recommended that cloud customers use alternative disaster-recovery arrangements. The Record reported that Russian state media said Yandex had agreements with Selectel, K2Cloud and VK Cloud to help customers move data or services.
What automated traffic data can tell you
KitCut’s video analysis distinguishes automated traffic on Yandex’s network from the identity or intent of the people or systems behind it. A traffic measurement alone does not identify political accounts or their operators.
