Yandex says drone attack halted its Vladimir data center operations

A Bluesky user claimed bot traffic from Yandex's network had fallen near zero after the strike. Cloudflare Radar's accessible chart and a linked screenshot do not establish the drop's interval, baseline or magnitude.

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Primary source: Bluesky

Why it matters

Network-level bot data can reveal changes in traffic tied to infrastructure. Without the chart's underlying values and a verifiable baseline, it cannot establish how much traffic fell, when it fell, or whether the traffic was part of an influence operation.

Bluesky post says Yandex bot traffic neared zero after data-center strike — Yandex confirmed its Vladimir facility was shut down on October 11th, but Cloudflare's automated-traffic measure does not identify who operated the requests or why.

Yandex said a drone attack shut down its data center in Vladimir, Russia, Al Jazeera reported. Published October 11th, the report quotes the company saying operations at the facility were completely suspended. It does not establish the exact time of the strike.…

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