Drone attack disrupts data centre in eastern Moscow, Russia says

Russia says a drone attack caused disruption at a data centre in eastern Moscow. That puts digital infrastructure in the Russian capital squarely in the line of fire. What Russia is reporting Russian authorities reported that a drone strike led to disruption at a facility in the eastern part of Moscow. The report described the effect as a disruption. It did not describe the site as destroyed. The report also lands right after a run of attacks on Russian tech infrastructure. That context makes it hard to read as an isolated incident. The Yandex strikes that came first In early October 2026, Ukraine carried out drone strikes on two major data centres belonging to Yandex, one of Russia’s largest technology companies. Think of Yandex as Russia’s answer to a company that runs search, maps, cloud and AI all under one roof. The first strike, on October 8, hit the Sasovo facility in the Ryazan region. It sparked a fire that brought operations to a complete halt. The site held tens of thousands of servers and two of Yandex’s three AI supercomputers. Sasovo is not a new or minor asset. The hub opened in 2014, making it one of the longer-serving pieces of the company’s infrastructure. A day l...