# Russian cloud Yandex says drone attacks on its datacenters caused data loss

Source: [www.theregister.com - Articles](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/11/12/russian-cloud-yandex-says-drone-attacks-on-its-datacenters-caused-data-loss/5309234) · 2026-11-12 · Industry
Page: https://themorning.dev/story/russian-cloud-yandex-says-drone-attacks-on-its-datacenters-caused-data-loss-6c25034ee4bd8791
Kind: outage · Impact: medium

## In brief

- Yandex has admitted that a drone attack on one of its datacenters caused data loss.
- The attack happened in early October and caused a fire and a subsequent outage in the ru-central1-b availability zone.
- Ukrainian press said the attack was ordered by Kyiv; this attribution is not confirmed by the source.

## Why it matters

Customers whose workloads ran in the affected Yandex Cloud availability zone may have lost data, which shows that a single availability zone can be a point of failure.

## Coverage

- [Russian cloud Yandex says drone attacks on its datacenters caused data loss](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/11/12/russian-cloud-yandex-says-drone-attacks-on-its-datacenters-caused-data-loss/5309234) — www.theregister.com - Articles, 2026-11-12

Tags: cloud, datacenter, outage, data-loss, yandex

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