Ukraine began attacking data centers in Russia

On Thursday night, after a drone attack on the Ryazan region, a fire started on the territory of the Sasta plant, where one of the Yandex data centers is located. After the strike, Yandex services began to experience disruptions. In recent weeks, data centers have become one of the targets of long-range strikes by the Russian military in Ukraine, along with bridges, gas stations, railway infrastructure, water supply and energy systems.
Details. The strike on the city of Sasovo in the Ryazan region was reported at 2:14 a.m. by the Ukrainian monitoring telegram channel Exilenova+. According to him, a fire occurred at the Sasovo machine-tool plant. The channel published a video of the fire. The channel also mentioned that the Yandex DC Sasta data center is located on the territory of the enterprise. Another Ukrainian monitoring telegram channel Supernova+ reported that it was the data center that was attacked.

• ️ The fire on the territory of the Sasta plant, where the Yandex data center is located, was confirmed by geoanalysis of the Astra publication. The fire was also recorded by the Nasa Firms service.

• ️ After three o’clock in the morning, the service for monitoring failures in the RuNet, Downdetector, recorded a sharp increase in complaints about problems with the Yandex search engine and other company services. A notification appeared on the Yandex Cloud platform about “an incident in the ru-central1-b availability zone; in other zones, problems may arise when creating new virtual machines, k8s clusters and databases.” The work of the data center as a result of “an incident that affected part of the infrastructure” was completely stopped, Yandex reported .

• ️ According to the Ministry of Defense, on Thursday night 18 Russian regions and Crimea were attacked. The military department reported the destruction of 399 drones.

• ️ In addition to the machine tool plant and data center in the Ryazan region, in Russia, after an air attack, a fire occurred in the area of ​​the Gazprom oil refinery in the city of Salavat in Bashkortostan.

Russian strikes on data centers. On September 23, the Russian military began an intensive campaign of attacks on data centers in Kiev. The data centers of at least eight companies were damaged or destroyed, some of which were targeted more than once: MiroHost , United DC , UTELS , Parkovy , Datagroup ,Cosmonova , Omega Telecom anddline.ua .

• Disturbances in the operation of data centersled to disruptions in the work of providers ( affecting more than 100 thousand households in Kiev), online stores and file hosting services, and the suspension of TV channel broadcasts.

Other goals of Russia. The strikes are part of Moscow's broader strategy to disrupt daily life in Ukraine, destroy the Ukrainian economy and force Kyiv to make peace on the Kremlin's terms. Since the beginning of the year, the Russian military has destroyed 900 thousand square meters. m of warehouses in Ukraine, damaged 310 railway locomotives, and actually established a naval blockade of ports on the Black Sea.

• ️ Since mid-August, Russia began a new wave of attacks on border crossings; in mid-September, during the attack, water supply facilities in Kiev were damaged ; at the end of September, a massive Russian campaign against Ukrainian energy began.

• ️ Last week, bridges in Kiev became a new target for strikes, which were hit for four days in a row, starting on Thursday.