Three Drones Took Yandex's Data Centres Offline. The Bots Moved to a Different Building.
Ukrainian strikes on Yandex facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and the Vladimir region cut the search crawler's traffic by up to 99 percent. The viral claim was that Russian bot networks went silent. Cloudflare's own analysis says otherwise: the malicious automation reappeared on other Russian hosts with identical fingerprints within hours. The physical substrate is now a targetable military asset. What the data shows it did was move.