Drone Attack Shuts Down Yandex Data Centre in Vladimir

A drone attack disrupted operations at Yandex's data centre in Vladimir, Russia, shutting down the facility and affecting Yandex Cloud services, Yandex Home, Yandex Music and Telemost after a power supply failure in the ru-central1-a availability zone.

According to Russian media outlet Astra and TASS citing Yandex, the company reported the outage at around 04:00. The affected availability zone is physically hosted at Yandex's own data centre in Vladimir's Energetik neighbourhood.

A message posted during the disruption described the service issue and the company's response efforts.

"There are power supply disruptions in the ru-central1-a availability zone. The team is working to resolve the issue. We will keep you updated on our progress." stated a Yandex service message.

The Vladimir site began operating in 2017, and Yandex launched a nearby 40 MW data centre in March 2026 designed for 2,800 server racks, according to company information cited by Russian media.

Yandex later reported that the Vladimir facility had been fully shut down after the drone strike, with no injuries reported.

"Yandex's data centre in Vladimir has been completely shut down as a result of a drone attack. No one was injured," said Yandex.

Russia's Vladimir Oblast governor Alexander Avdeyev later confirmed that a drone struck an infrastructure site near Vladimir, causing a fire and leading to evacuations of residents from nearby buildings.

"infrastructure facility" said Alexander Avdeyev, governor of Russia's Vladimir Oblast.

The incident follows previous drone-related damage reported by Yandex at data centres in Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan Oblast and in Kaluga. Yandex said the Sasovo incident affected part of the centre's infrastructure and raised uncertainty over equipment repairs.