# Yandex Shuts Vladimir Data Center After Drone Attack, Third Reported Attack in Four Days By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/29766 Published: 2026-10-11T09:40:56.000Z Updated: 2026-10-11T09:40:56.000Z Section: Technology > Yandex Cloud entered emergency mode after the facility was damaged. The attack also disrupted electricity for about 5,000 residents. Yandex shut down its Vladimir data center after a drone attack damaged the facility Oct. 11, the third reported attack on a Yandex data center in four days. Yandex Cloud placed its platform in emergency operating mode after determining that the remaining resource configuration was unstable. Customers were urged to activate alternative disaster-recovery plans, while technical-support channels could also be unstable. The facility was completely shut down, and no injuries were reported. Alexander Avdeyev, governor of the Vladimir region, said the attack caused a fire and knocked out two substations, temporarily disrupting electricity for about 5,000 residents. The incident followed a drone attack that seriously damaged Yandex’s Sasovo data center in the Ryazan region overnight on Oct. 7-8. That facility was completely shut down. A separate attack on Oct. 9 damaged part of Yandex’s data center in Kaluga and took some infrastructure out of service. Yandex said no employees were injured in the Sasovo or Kaluga incidents. The company has not identified who launched the drones. Yandex operates cloud infrastructure for its own consumer services and external business customers. Some Yandex services were affected by the disruptions, but the company has not published a complete public list. The latest shutdown adds to uncertainty over restoration timelines at the affected facilities. Yandex has not provided a timetable for restoring operations. The attack follows [Yandex’s shutdown of its Sasovo data center after a drone strike]() and [its disclosure that a second facility in Kaluga had been damaged](). ## Links in this article - [Yandex’s shutdown of its Sasovo data center after a drone strike](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/27836) - [its disclosure that a second facility in Kaluga had been damaged](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/28849)