Yandex moves its three supercomputers after Ukrainian drone strikes on its data centres

"They have been removed from the locations where they were until now and are currently being deployed at new computing sites." The company says none of the three was damaged.

— Yandex press service

Yandex data centres hit in a week

3 of 6 data centres

Ukrainian drones struck three of Yandex's six data centres in a week in October: Sasovo in Ryazan Oblast, Kaluga and Vladimir.

Two of the supercomputers, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov, ran in the Sasovo data centre, hit overnight on Oct 8. The third, Galushkin, was in Vladimir, hit overnight on Oct 11.

Data-centre categories

• State significance
• Regional significance
• Corporate significance

Russia's digital ministry has sent guidelines sorting data centres into three categories by importance, each with its own protection criteria.