Ukraine hits Yandex data centre in third strike this week — SkimNews
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- Yandex suspended operations at its Vladimir data centre after a Ukrainian drone strike — the third attack on the Russian tech giant in one week — with no injuries reported but some user services unavailable.
- Yandex said two of its five data centres were struck earlier in the week (Thursday in Sasovo, Friday in Kaluga), and it was 'very difficult to predict' when services would resume across the network used by tens of millions of Russians.
- Kyiv said the strikes target revenue streams for Moscow's war machine and could force Russia to divert resources to repair the damage.
- Trump demanded hours before the Sunday attack that Ukraine 'damn well stop' hitting Russian oil refineries.
- Zelensky countered that 'any de-escalation steps must be reciprocal and backed by real guarantees' and attacked a new US-Russia deal releasing millions of tonnes of Russian diesel into the US, prompting Trump to reply that 'it's time for Ukraine to get a new president.'
Why it matters: Three of Yandex's five data centres were hit in a single week, threatening prolonged outages for services used by tens of millions of Russians. The exchange sharpens a Trump-Zelensky fracture over whether Ukraine should be striking Russian oil and tech infrastructure at all, with Trump now openly suggesting Zelensky should be replaced.
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