Can you teach an Unc new tricks?
Ukraine just took out Russian data centers, and boy, did it hurt Russia! The question is… did Trump learn a lesson?
Info.roCristiana Dida12 October 2026,Attacks attributed to Ukraine against data centers in Russia may have reduced the activity of bots connected to Yandex infrastructure by more than 99%, with effects observed on social media in the United States and Europe. The incident occurred on Sunday, amid political tensions ahead of the U.S. congressional elections.Three major data centers were hit, according to information cited by Le Parisien: first in Sasovo, in the Ryazan region, then in the Kaluga region and, finally, in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow. The infrastructure was used by Yandex, Russia’s leading provider of online and cloud services.The company announced that the Vladimir data center was damaged in a drone attack and that operations were disrupted. Cloudflare subsequently reported a decline of more than 99% in bot activity originating from Yandex infrastructure compared with the previous week.
Hello? Donald? Are you listening? Your pal Putin can’t influence our elections… you’re on your own!
Meduza.io writes….
Overnight on October 8, Ukrainian forces struck Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, in Russia’s Ryazan region, with drones, causing a fire. No one was injured, but the data center temporarily shut down completely. This disrupted some of Yandex’s own services, as well as those of companies that used the tech giant’s infrastructure in Sasovo.[…]Data centers can withstand a temporary power outage thanks to their own diesel generators, the loss of an individual communications link thanks to connections to multiple telecom providers, and even a small fire thanks to automatic fire suppression systems. But, like online retailers’ warehouses, they have proved defenseless against drone strikes. Unless, of course, they are housed in former Cold War shelters — Europe has several such data centers.
Hey folks, this also affects you… all the stuff you have on the cloud could go poof! In a fraction of a second. Gone!
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.Tom’s HardwareBy Jowi MoralesRussian bot traffic has dropped dramatically in the past few days after Ukraine knocked out Yandex’s biggest data centers, with a third attack happening last night. Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks. It initially dropped to around 57% on Oct. 8, which happened when Ukraine hit a Yandex data center housing two supercomputers in Sasovo, Russia, located around 195 miles to the southeast of the Kremlin. A second, bigger Yandex campus in Kaluga, about 220 miles to the west of Sasovo, was knocked offline yesterday.These attacks are apparently Ukraine’s response to Moscow’s strikes on its own data centers, some of which resulted in the outage of some of the most popular piracy websites.
So this is Russia’s Google… imagine if Google got taken out? Tom’s Hardware noted that these sites housed:
• State-sponsored "bot farms" & disinformation operations
• High-performance supercomputers & AI models
• Dual-use industrial & military tech
Did Hegseth and Trump learn anything from this?
We used to think warfare meant lines drawn on a map; tanks on land, warships at sea, fighter jets in the air. That’s traditional, symmetric warfare, where the side with the bigger budget and the heavier hardware usually wins. But asymmetric warfare flipped the board upside down.
There are no frontlines anymore. The battlefield is everywhere—and the ultimate weapon isn't a billion-dollar stealth fighter. It’s a $20,000 drone taking out a multi-million-dollar server farm.
I am sure that the Ayatollahs are stroking their beads over this.
So can a Unc learn new things?
