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Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers � Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes
on Kyiv data centers
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By Jowi Morales
Published yesterday

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
a Russian warehouse on fire after being hit by a drone


Russian bot traffic has dropped dramatically in the past few days after Ukraine knocked out Yandex's biggest data centers, with a third attack happening last night. Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks. It initially dropped to around 57% on Oct.
8, which happened when Ukraine hit a Yandex data center housing two supercomputers in Sasovo, Russia, located around 195 miles to the southeast
of the Kremlin. A second, bigger Yandex campus in Kaluga, about 220 miles
to the west of Sasovo, was knocked offline yesterday.

These attacks are apparently Ukraine's response to Moscow's strikes on its
own data centers, some of which resulted in the outage of some of the most popular piracy websites.

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Yandex is Russia's equivalent to Google, and its Yandex Cloud service
status reports that at least 84 services are currently offline. Global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said that Yandex's network traffic has dropped to just 30% for Yandex Cloud and 63% for Yandex LLC, most likely resulting in slower internet services or complete disruption for the
average Russian. Unfortunately, the ordinary Russian wouldn't be able to
use high-speed satellite internet as a backup, as Starlink does not work in Russia, while the competing Rassvet constellation has had a good number of
its existing satellites fall back to the surface after launch.

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Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox. " https: //t. co/jOVL5BjYNROctober 11, 2026
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These incidents are a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, which escalated dramatically in 2022 after Russia's failed attempt to capture
Kyiv. However, many observers say that the war actually started in 2014
when Russian forces seized Crimea and occupied parts of eastern Ukraine
after the fall of the pro-Russian government that year.

The hostilities, which have dragged on for years, saw the introduction of
new technologies and strategies, specifically in drone warfare. It began
with the wide deployment of commercially available drones on the front
lines, typically for reconnaissance, dropping explosives, and kamikaze-
style attacks. However, it has since evolved into long-range warfare, with specially built drones able to reach distances of over 1,500 miles and
destroy Tu-95 strategic bombers situated well behind the front lines.

The drone strikes on data centers are relatively new developments. While
data centers on bases are often considered valid targets, Russia's justification for the attacks on civilian data centers was that Ukrainian military intelligence used them. This isn't the first time that civilian
data centers have also been hit by drones and missiles. AWS sites in
Bahrain and the UAE have been hit multiple times since Washington started
its bombing campaign against Iran, with the company telling its clients to move their data to sites outside the region, as it doesn't have a recovery timeline.
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J Kramer <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Getting a break from Russian web crawlers? Same as the ones Google and Bing use?

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots>

“Did Ukraine’s strikes lead to a decline in Russian disinformation?

Probably not. While a few graphs went viral on social media suggesting
there had been a big decline in activity from Yandex bots, those graphs are unrelated to Russian disinformation…”

That magical Russian disinformation. It does not disappear even when their
data centers are bombed. There’s some sorcery going on, for sure.

“What are these different kinds of bots?

“The term ‘bot’ can mean many different things,” said Michał ‘Rysiek’
Woźniak, an internet infrastructure expert. “When Cloudflare data shows a precipitous drop in ‘bot’ traffic, that does not mean ‘automated social media troll accounts’, it means ‘software that makes automated web requests on a large scale.’” What Cloudflare picked up was a decline in activity from Yandex’s web crawlers. These are used by search engines to index websites and help users to find them, said Khan…”
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In article <11areo7$1b8dk$1@news.tcpreset.net>, anson@g.net says...

D. Ray wrote:

J Kramer <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Getting a break from Russian web crawlers? Same as the ones Google and
Bing use?

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-d >atacentres-online-disinformation-bots>

⤽Did Ukraine�?s strikes lead to a decline in Russian disinformation?

Probably not. While a few graphs went viral on social media suggesting >there had been a big decline in activity from Yandex bots, those graphs
are unrelated to Russian disinformation�?⤝

That magical Russian disinformation. It does not disappear even when
their data centers are bombed. There�?s some sorcery going on, for sure.

⤽What are these different kinds of bots?

⤽The term �?bot�? can mean many different things,⤝ said Micha�? >�?Rysiek�? Woźniak, an internet infrastructure expert. ⤽When >Cloudflare data shows a precipitous drop in �?bot�? traffic, that does >not mean �?automated social media troll accounts�?, it means
�?software that makes automated web requests on a large scale.�?⤝
What Cloudflare picked up was a decline in activity from Yandex�?s web >crawlers. These are used by search engines to index websites and help
users to find them, said Khan�?⤝

I'm dissapointed. I've always been anti American and pro Russian so I support the bots and what they say.

Russian Culture is the only white culture. Fuck America.

And Fuck You too.
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:57:43 -0000 (UTC), "Anson G." <anson@g.net>
wrote:

D. Ray wrote:

J Kramer <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Getting a break from Russian web crawlers? Same as the ones Google and
Bing use? >><https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots>
"Did Ukraine's strikes lead to a decline in Russian disinformation? >>Probably not. While a few graphs went viral on social media suggesting >>there had been a big decline in activity from Yandex bots, those graphs
are unrelated to Russian disinformation"?

<laughs and points> Bullshit!

That magical Russian disinformation. It does not disappear even when
their data centers are bombed.

Yeah. Actually, it did, liar. It even got slow in here. For days I
was trying to figure out why 100+ posts twice a day turned into barely
more than 50.

There’s some sorcery going on, for sure.

“What are these different kinds of bots?
“The term ‘bot’ can mean many different things,�? said Michał >>‘Rysiek’ Woźniak, an internet infrastructure expert. “When >>Cloudflare data shows a precipitous drop in ‘bot’ traffic, that does >>not mean ‘automated social media troll accounts’, it means
‘software that makes automated web requests on a large scale.’�?

... as well as Russia's notorious right wing, social media bots.

What Cloudflare picked up was a decline in activity from Yandex’s web >>crawlers. These are used by search engines to index websites and help
users to find them, said Khan…�?

Yes, that too. But that ignores the fact that right wing Internet
traffic at social media sites like Tucky's X account dropped by a
third or more. Carlson's traffic dropped by over seventy percent that
week. It even got noticeable quieter in afr-l, as I noted above.

I'm dissapointed. I've always been anti American and pro Russian so I >support the bots and what they say.
Russian Culture is the only white culture. Fuck America.
Only libruls hate Russia.

And globull warbling. Libruls hates globull warbling too!
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