Experts say there is no evidence Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centres have knocked down Russian bot networks, despite claims spreading online. The outages have disrupted services, but not been shown to reduce influence operations.
01Summary
- 01Ukraine has struck three of Yandex's five data centres since 8 October in response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian internet hubs.
- 02Yandex said after the second strike on Thursday that it was struggling to maintain its services.
- 03BBC Verify says claims of a fall in Kremlin-linked bot activity appear to come from a misreading of Cloudflare data.
- 04Researchers from dTeam said there had been no traffic change from known Russian accounts and bot clusters on any platform.
- 05Yandex's cloud services have been disrupted, and Netblocks said websites relying on them may be partially or entirely unusable.
02Why it matters
The story matters because it separates online speculation from evidence about Russian influence operations. It also shows how attacks on digital infrastructure can disrupt services far beyond the immediate conflict.
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