Drone strike on a Yandex data centre in Sasovo
Place: Sasovo, Ryazan OblastRegion: Other regions of Russiaautomatic summary
Where the versions diverge
TASS and Yandex describe the site as a civilian company's data centre; Ukrainian media, citing OSINT, stress that it is located on the grounds of the Sasta plant, which is important for the defence industry. Zelensky presents the strike as a mirror response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres.
What Russia reports
automatic summary TASS, citing a Yandex statement, reports that a drone attack caused a fire at the company's data centre in Sasovo, Ryazan region; there were no casualties, the data centre's operations have been fully suspended and some services may be unavailable.
“The data center’s operations have been fully suspended and some Yandex services may be unavailable to users”
- Yandex reports fire at data center following drone attack — TASS (tass.com), 8 October, 09:10
What Ukraine reports
automatic summary Ukrainska Pravda and RBC-Ukraine, citing Astra and OSINT channels, write that the fire broke out on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, important for Russia's defence industry, where the Yandex data centre is located. Zelensky, according to Suspilne, effectively confirmed the strike: "We always respond in kind... they have struck and are striking our data centres."
“спалахнула пожежа на території заводу "Саста", де розташований дата-центр ТОВ "Яндекс ДЦ", і який є важливим для ВПК РФ”
“Ми завжди відповідаємо дзеркально. Ви всі знаєте, вони били і б'ють по наших дата-центрах. Ми відповіли їм”
- У Росії атакований і горить важливий для ВПК РФ завод із дата-центром "Яндекс" – пабліки — Ukrainska Pravda, 8 October, 03:32
- Зеленський підтвердив удар по російському дата-центру «Яндекс» — Suspilne, 8 October, 20:29
- В России поражен важный для ВПК завод, рядом – дата-центр "Яндекса" — RBC-Ukraine, 8 October, 01:58
- Дроны ударили по крупнейшему дата-центру "Яндекса" в России (видео) — RBC-Ukraine, 8 October, 08:20
- После удара по дата-центру "Яндекса" массово "легли" сайты российских пропагандистов — RBC-Ukraine, 8 October, 16:27
- Зеленский сделал заявление об ударе по дата-центру "Яндекса" — RBC-Ukraine, 8 October, 20:45
What independent sources report
automatic summary DW writes that the data centre has fully suspended operations and that Yandex cannot yet confirm whether the equipment can be restored. Kyiv Independent, citing The Moscow Times, reports widespread outages in the Russian internet and quotes Zelensky on responding "in kind".
“Дата-центр "Яндекса" в Сасово Рязанской области полностью приостановил работу после атаки украинских беспилотников в ночь на 8 октября.”
“We always respond in kind.”
- Удар ВСУ по дата-центру "Яндекса": это опасно для Рунета? — DW (RU), 8 October, 19:57
- 'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center — Kyiv Independent, 8 October, 21:15
- Massive internet outage in Russia after Ukraine reportedly hits largest Yandex data center in drone attack — Kyiv Independent, 8 October, 05:14
Confirmation
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