That night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the first time hit the Sasta plant in Sasovo, Ryazan region, where the Yandex data center (data processing center, data center) is located. After the drone attack there was a fire.
"In the Yandex data center in Sasovo as a result of the UAV attack, a fire occurred that affected part of the infrastructure. There are no casualties, the relevant services on the spot are eliminating the consequences, " the company's press service said.
They clarified that "the work of the data center has been completely stopped, some of the Yandex services may not be available to users."
Yandex also reported power outages in the ru-central1-b zone of the Yandex Cloud platform, part of the infrastructure inside the data center where applications and customer data are hosted.
The governor of the region Pavel Malkov said:
"Two UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Ryazan Region tonight. In the Sasovsky district, the roof of one of the enterprises caught fire, windows were broken in several private sector houses. Previously, there were no casualties."
The Sasta plant produces metalworking machines and supplies equipment, including to defense industry enterprises. According to eyewitness footage, a strong fire started at the facility as a result of the attack.
Users complained about problems with Yandex. Yandex. Disk" and "Yandex. Documents".
The Yandex data center in Sasovo opened in 2011. The head of the city administration, Evgenia Rubtsova, said in 2022 that the company had invested more than 6 billion rubles in it over 11 years.