Ukrainian Drones Disable Yandex AI Data Centers in Russia

Ukrainian drones struck two of Yandex's five Russian data centers on October 8-9, disabling supercomputers training YandexGPT at the Sasovo facility and hitting the company's largest center in Kaluga. The attacks disrupted Yandex services plus Ivi, T-Bank, Russian Railways, and other platforms. Zelenskyy called it a symmetrical response to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. Firepoint confirmed its FP-1 drones were used at Kaluga. Yandex acknowledged disruptions but no injuries.