What happened

Yandex Cloud attributed disruption at its Sasovo data centre to a fire caused by a drone attack on 8 October. Its status notice said availability zone ru-central1-b remained unavailable while load was switched to other zones. AFP separately reported the company’s confirmation. These statements establish a physical incident and service disruption, but not the full extent of damage or a restoration deadline. The operator statement reviewed here does not identify the attacker. Russian reporting places the incident in the context of strengthened protection for data centres under measures concerning critical infrastructure; a formal designation of this particular site has not been verified. No military use is inferred from that description. The marker represents Sasovo, not a verified impact coordinate.

When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.