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Satellite Images Reveal What’s Left of Russia’s Yandex Data Center After Ukrainian Strike
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Ukrainian forces struck a data center operated by Russian technology company Yandex in Sasovo, Russia’s Ryazan region, overnight on October 8, damaging the facility and forcing a complete shutdown of its operations.
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The extent of the damage was revealed in satellite imagery from Planet Labs, published by the Telegram channel Absolutely Reliable Source on October 8.
The images show significant damage to the roof and infrastructure of the facility, with visible signs of destruction and fire damage on the left side of the main building’s roof.
Yandex’s press service confirmed that the Sasovo data center had completely suspended operations due to damage to part of its infrastructure, according to Absolutely Reliable Source.
On the night of October 8, 2026, the Defense Forces of Ukraine successfully struck a data center in the city of Sasovo (Ryazan Oblast, Russia), which is one of the largest data processing and storage centers of the Russian IT company Yandex.
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The Yandex DC Sasovo data center has a reported electrical capacity of up to 12 megawatts and can accommodate tens of thousands of servers, making it a significant component of the company's cloud infrastructure.
Additional evidence of the strike emerged from the Ukrainian OSINT community Exilenova+, which reported the attack on October 8 and published footage showing a large fire burning at the industrial site.
Shortly after the attack, reports began circulating about significant disruptions to Yandex Cloud services, including power supply failures and difficulties accessing computing resources, network infrastructure, data storage systems, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and other cloud-based services.
The reported technical problems coincided with widespread internet outages across Russia later that day, affecting services beyond Yandex’s own infrastructure.
According to The Moscow Times, the disruptions began at approximately 4 p.m. on October 8 and affected a wide range of online services, including banking platforms, retail websites, mobile operators, transportation services, and streaming platforms.
Users also reported difficulties accessing Google, YouTube, RuTube, and several major Russian websites.
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