🔥 Destruction

Geolocated footage and satellite imagery show fire damage to the Yandex Sasovo data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, which Yandex attributed to a Ukrainian drone strike that suspended operations and caused service outages.

Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast
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Geolocated footage published on October 8 shows fire at the Yandex Sasovo data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast.

Yandex claimed that a Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at its data center, suspending operations and causing outages in Yandex services.

Telegram channels have reported an attack on the Sasta plant in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast.

Exilenova+ reported that the Sasta machine-tool plant in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, has been hit.

Exilenova+ suggested that missiles or jet-powered UAVs were used to strike Sasovo in Ryazan Oblast.

From October 8 to 11, Ukrainian drones reached three of the company’s data centers: in Sasovo in the Ryazan region, Kaluga, and Vladimir.

On October 8, drones attacked a Yandex data center in the city of Sasovo, Ryazan region

Another drone attack on Oct. 8 caused a fire at the company's data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, forcing it to suspend operations completely.

Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Russia’s Ryazan Oblast... overnight on Oct. 8

Eyewitness footage showed a large fire at the site following the attack.

Yandex acknowledged an “incident” and said some of its services were temporarily unavailable.

In the night of October 8, a data center in Sasovo (Ryazan Oblast) was hit, housing two of the company's three supercomputers.

A major fire broke out on the premises of the 'Sasta' machine-tool factory in the town of Sasovo, in the Ryazan Region of Russia, during the night of 8 October.

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