The last of the three supercomputers operated by russia's Yandex was knocked out of service following an FP-1 drone strike on the data center in Vladimir. Thousands of russian companies relying on Yandex Cloud were potentially affected.
"The Defense Forces of Ukraine knocked out a third Yandex data center, this time in Vladimir, using FP-1 attack drones. The facility sustained significant damage and was forced completely offline, triggering widespread outages across most Yandex services," a Ukrainian attack drone manufacturer, Fire Point, stated.
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Following the attack, widespread disruptions to Yandex services have been reported, with most of them currently unavailable. According to the OSINT channel Exilenova+, the affected data centers also host infrastructure used by several russian companies.
"In other words, thousands of companies that lack their own IT infrastructure and depend on Yandex Cloud to run their websites, databases, payment systems, and other critical services are now at greatest risk. Many of them may be relatively unknown, so there is no comprehensive public list yet," the statement says.
One of Yandex's three supercomputers, Galushkin, was housed in Vladimir, russia. These systems are critical to training the company's AI models.
Earlier, the Defense Forces of Ukraine used an FP-1 UAV to strike two more supercomputers located in Sasovo, russia's Ryazan Oblast. Following the strike on October 8, the data centers ceased operations entirely. As a result, all three supercomputers became inoperable.
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