Following attack, Yandex data centre in Vladimir is on fire: services are disrupted and city is without power. PHOTOS
A Yandex data centre in Vladimir, Russia, is on fire after an attack, and reports say dozens of the company’s online services have been taken offline.
This is reported by Censor.NET, citing an OSINT analysis by ASTRA.
Yandex data centre on fire
Judging by photos from ASTRA readers, a large-scale fire has broken out in Vladimir; a drone attack had previously been reported. An ASTRA OSINT analyst, having analysed the photos, concluded that the Yandex data centre, located in the Energetik neighbourhood of Vladimir, had caught fire.
What is the company saying?
An hour earlier, Yandex reported a major outage and power supply disruption in the ru-central1-a coverage area.
At the same time, reports are coming in from various regions of Russia about disruptions to Yandex’s services and apps; for example, in Rostov, it was noted that the ‘Yandex Taxi’ app was not working and, as a result, available drivers were not being displayed.
"The enemy attacked Yandex’s third data centre in Vladimir, and in the wake of this, over 80 of the company’s services went offline. These include Yandex Home, Yandex Music and a whole host of others. It seems we’ve lost Yandex!" the message reads.
Following the fire at the Yandex data centre, the whole neighbourhood was shrouded in smoke.
ASTRA readers are sharing photos of the city of Vladimir following the drone attack on the Yandex facility in the Energetik neighbourhood and report that the Leninsky district of the city is completely shrouded in smoke. Another photo sent in, according to the contributor, captures the moment of the strike and the explosion at the data centre.
Meanwhile, Yandex has reported that operations at the data centre in Vladimir have been completely halted as a result of the drone attack; no one was injured.
There is a power cut
According to the governor of the Russian region, Alexander Avdeev, drones attacked "infrastructure" in the suburbs of Vladimir. The city is without electricity.
"Drones have attacked infrastructure in the suburbs of Vladimir. A fire has broken out. There is no information on casualties at this time. Damage to residential buildings has been avoided," Avdeev said.
According to him, two substations supplying electricity to 5,000 residents have been taken offline. Plans are in place to restore the power supply via a backup system once the threat has been eliminated. The evacuation of residents from the houses closest to the site of the attack is currently underway.
What led up to this?
- It was previously reported that on the night of 8 October, a major fire broke out at the "Sasta" machine-tool factory in the town of Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The "Yandex DC Sasovo" data centre is located on the same industrial site.
- A second Yandex data centre was attacked in Russia on 9 October – in Kaluga.
