Ukraine-linked strikes shut third Yandex data centre, Vladimir hub down
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
SurvileSupplicant 🔞176Well r/conservative (a hive of bot scum) has gone silent for hours.
pcrritesgood.bsky.social151Zelenskyy saw that Putin and trump had made a deal to help each other so he blew up the main thing Putin planned to use to help trump… his troll farms!
thetatrivia.bsky.social128and Tik Tok and and half of Facebook
Magnus Johnson95The vulnerabilities of data centres and their attraction as targets should give all governments pause for thought.
Sir Rants Alot68Bot networks down just before the elections? Perfect. bsky.app/profile/robv...
Jumpingaround40Musk must be so pissed off..
Ieda Marcondes36A Ucrânia conseguiu destruir um data center da Rússia e, aparentemente, o tráfico de bots (que inclui serviços de extração de dados pra treinar IA) despencou.
Molondrongo 🐹💾 Retro, Spooky Capibara20Unos ucranianos le pegan un palo a un datacenter ruso y de pronto un montón de bustos romanos, ranapepes y avatares de anime dejan de interactuar con tu cuenta de Twitter.
Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open19What a stupid time to be alive.
Isaiah Bishop19This would be a really fun RDD paper if it worked
Dragon Cobolt17I've said this before but, like, in terms of a national budget, hiring a bunch of people (or running a bunch of bots) is such a teeny TINY expenditure compared to its outsized potential impact.
Miss Pavlichenko14What I'm getting from this is that we need to destroy more data centers around the world so the internet is good again.
William Davis10Thank you Ukraine for the best internet we've experienced in years.
MARCY BONES! 🎃7so what i'm getting from this is more data centers should be destroyed
Scott Cory4Well. Hybrid warfare is asymmetrical and has unexpected benefits.
John Roscoe3A BEET FARM IN RUSSIA "Yuri, wake up." "Mff. What is time?" "Is morning in America. Come, we are needed at troll farm." "What for troll farm needs workers? I thought AI-" "Ukrainians blow up AI. We go back old way." "Good! Troll farm better than prying moldy beets from frozen ground at beet farm."
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
Ukraine, once again, does a favour for the world. It’s past time the world started doing favours for Ukraine.
Detroit Storm47just in time for voting. Thanks Ukraine, you did everyone a solid.
LambInWolf'sClothing40Thank you, President Zelenskyy. A moment of peace from the bots has no price. I am angry and ashamed the USA betrayed Ukraine. I wish we had a president instead of a resident (evil)
Zorro Rozic23Yes … this will help in USA midterms
pricecheck.bsky.social16Democracy may have a better chance in the upcoming weeks of elections around the World, knowing this Russian facility that has been damaged in Russia by Ukraine, will be less able to spin its webs of misleading posts, for now.
Kathy Mortensen 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙8Take out more internet please
OB1 Rebel10While Trump is screwing over Ukraine and working for Putin Ukraine is helping the USA and other countries by disabling the Russian bits that dumb, ignorant, gullible people listen to. This should help with our November elections.
Colin Williams8X must be so peaceful rn
Ari 👹7To je krásné neštěstí 🤩
Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦6Excellent news for the world. Thank you Ukraine.
🔞Mx Wred's haunted 🏳️⚧️ brain 🔞6I thought I was seeing fewer "The Bluewave needs to run on transphobia" accounts today.
🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️5Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 #Blues #Ukraine
Katarzyna Mucha3The Republican election campaign has lost momentum.
Billionaires Stealing Our Country2Wow. This is pretty big news!
Matt Grimshaw2What I'd like to know is how much right wing talking points dropped... Because I suspect it'll be by a similar amount. Ban all the bots.
Julia In The Dining Room (With The Candlestick)2Will no one think of Isabellend Spokenshite's likes?
The third data center in Russia has been torched by Ukrainian long-range drones. The facility is located in the Vladimir region. 80 different cloud services operated by Yandex are currently not available.
Cynthia56I understand one of the data centers targeted took out a large number of Russian bots. Keep up the great work Ukraine! 🫰
Some Random Dave47Russian troll activity on Xwitter is reportedly down by almost half. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.
Daedalus41Third Yandex one. There are only 1-2 of Yandex data centers left. One is in Moscow. Yandex is backbone of whole russian internet
Medoyid_ua38Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just 80 apps down. Ukraine is hitting the kill chain and the ad revenue with the same drone. Third one gone, and Moscow cant rebuild that on a war budget.
Lavonne33This needs an ❌ somewhere. ata center bingo board.
Stan R. Mitchell17Good. 👏👏 Reminder: Putin could end this war tomorrow by pulling his army out of Ukraine. Also, the West should be doing far more to help Ukraine defend its airspace. It’s the strategically wise thing to do. (Heck, I'd argue it's the morally right thing to do, as well.)
Farmer Marv Bot 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🚜🌾60I love this for them!! And I love that they can’t even read this!! Bomb then back to the stone ages!!!!
Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid9Ukraine doing the lord's work. 👍
Wren ☸️🪷🗽⚖️93 down, 2 to go Gotta torch ‘em all!
Helianthus 🔔🇺🇦9Nr. 3 🥳🎉 I can't find his one on the Data Center Bingo Card above! 🤔 Which is actually bad and good at the same time. 😅
Robert יעקב✡🟦8There goes half of Elon's bot troll army. Republicans will be so pissed
joelunchpail.bsky.social8💥 💥 💥 The third russian data center is now toast. Burn bitch.
Claire7This is amazing. This is how you defeat Putin, and by proxy, Trump and the far right. Everything they do and say is built on lies, lies that are spread around the entire world by these 'propaganda' centres. Slava Ukraini.
Jo 🕊️💚5Ukraine doing the whole world a favour. дякую!
BettyBouge #NAFO🇨🇦4Loll. Suck it Russian trolls.
Citizen Snippy △4Remember this all comes in response to Russia deciding to strike Ukrainian datacentres in September - they hit BeMobile and Kyivstar facilities. Now they're finding out this is a two way street, only they've put a whole lot of eggs in the Yandex basket.
⚡Third Yandex data center in Russia shut down following reported drone attack. Russian technology giant Yandex's data center in Vladimir Oblast has been completely shut down following a reported drone attack, Russian state news agency TASS said on Oct. 11, citing the company.
Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny37Keep hitting those data centres
Medoyid_ua22Third one down. Yandex Cloud runs the drone telemetry and targeting compute, so the kill chain loses nodes rather than merely having apps go dark. The ad revenue is a bonus.
Furious George 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇺🇸16Yeeeeeees!!!!! Keep it up Ukrainian warriors and defenders! The more you do this over the next few weeks gives you the best chances of not having to go along with Trump’s gaslighting.
Валера | Valera 10This caused 48% of Kremlin-CCP-Musk trôlls to disappear from online
Stockholm Fella6Donald Trump: ”Stop bombing Putin's data centers, or else...”
DJS5Republican propaganda is going to take a hit from these strikes.
Kees van der Leun19As could be expected, data centres are becoming war targets. Yandex is an essential part of the Russian internet and also runs meal delivery and taxis. There's undoubtedly grounds to label it as a military target, but - like with the refineries - it will help in making Russians feel the war too.
Medoyid_ua13Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just consumer apps going dark. Third node down means the kill chain is losing racks, not features. Moscow built that stack for cost, not for war.
Rev. Magdalen6How do you say "Putin take Yandex" in Russian?
Salty5Oh is this why all the bots are quiet?
Todd Kolod💙5🔥Another Russian data center up in smoke.
Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼🚀🚀🔆🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET!4Stop striking at Russian Oil refineries the US president said.... lol
MarschallvonNAFO3Folks and fellas, update your data-center bingo cards :) Not only has yandex changed the fine print, drones are force major now, they can't swap space. Reason, over 95% booked and international ones are sanctioned. For now. Traitor Trump might help in this case too.
Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡2Ukraine takes out Russia data centers with their drone attacks. This is doing the world a service! #Elections everywhere will benefit from lack of interference. #AB #USA #Brexit #Germany #Brazil #Spain #France #CDN #Israel #Iran
The Yandex datacenter in Vladimir received drone sanctions, and is currently being migrated to the cloud. According to the Yandex status board, all Yandex services are completely unavailable in Russia. Maybe targeting our datacenters was a bad idea. Enjoy your digital detox.📵
Medoyid_ua77Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just apps going dark. Third DC hit in a week and Moscow cant rebuild that on a war budget. Targeting Ukraines nodes was a choice. The bill.
nevillebott.bsky.social63As Ukraine systematically destroys Russia's internet services it will be really interesting to see how that affects the traffic from social media trolls.
Oucheez29Turth social bout to be real quiet.
jiivee58.bsky.social26Ukraine, take them all down! Burn also every single Russian refinery funding this war. We don't care about Trump’s crooked diesel deal with Putin, hit them where it hurts.
ᚴᚼᛅᚱᛚᛁᛋ ᛋᚬᛘᛘᛁᚱᛋᚴᚬ, ᛏᚱᚬᛚᛏ, ᛁᚬᛏᚢᚾᚼᛁᛁᛘ19......and number of bot attacks in Europe apparently reduced with 50 %. Who would have thought that 😊
Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen17Lot of vaporware now 🤭
Darth Putin630RIP to all my genuine american warm water oblast trump supporters who lived in this data center.
Frode #Fella381Russia has targeted Ukrainian datacenters for a while and Yandex (and other russian datacenter providers) host lots of services for the russian military. This is legitimate targeting and honestly, Ukraine should hammer this type of infrastructure. Russia MUST be defeated.
Oekraïne Vandaag13De derde 🇺🇦 aanval op de datacenters van Yandex sinds 8 oktober:
The Beethoven Group5They can't even see us laugh at them anymore. 😂
Bob Morris4That's a darn shame. No Russia internet. So, no annoying right-wing bots and trolls.
Kévиɴ3j'ai vu quelques comptes X signaler une baisse d'activité des trolls prorusses. Je ne sais pas ce que ça représente au total @flefgraph.bsky.social , tu as vu passer ça aussi ?
Steve Huntsman2Ukrainians continuing to lead the charge against data centers
Dannie G2We love 🍊 bots about to mysteriously get quiet. Gee, they aren't really from Des Moines?
Anna McDuff2Russian bot activity may quieten down after this!
The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
Russian Embassy in Vatican15Finally someone found a way to reduce misinformation. It’s an interestingly sophisticated method.
Nick Chainey 13Hang on...is Kimble serious or is that tongue in cheek?
Krakas11Now you should all understand why the 🇺🇸 Tech Oligarchy fights against rules, regulations and 🇪🇺 so much
Reformed Redneck💙🇺🇸🇫🇮🇨🇦5Needs to be way bigger story 
Mattis (Dictatorship Simulator)4This is not quite correct. It's bot traffic originating from Yandex, NOT bots on social media. Yandex is a search engine, which populate their index using bots. Cloudflare wouldn't be able to measure bot traffic on social media, because it doesn't go through them.
jonathanmlewis.bsky.social3Suck it MAGA.....you're a pack of Russian stooges.
Sam Barlow 🔥32👀 Now find the other facility!
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend10This seems increasingly like it might be real, which is genuinely glorious - western democracy depends on working with Ukraine to take out the Kremlin bots
NotPatrick7Chers amis, n’imaginez pas que ce qui se passe avec les campagnes d’influence Russe aux US ne se passe pas aussi chez nous. Ni d’ailleurs qu’ils soutiennent un camp plutôt qu’un autre. L’objectif de la Russie est de semer la discorde. Tant qu’on sengueule et qu’on se déteste, ils y gagnent.
Mark Thompson6American democracy destroyed by foreign data centers.
Jane Ball (living dead girl)5i wonder what accounts have gone silent on Bluesky
Tottenham Makes Me Cry4This explains so much in the last three days
Panther Raccoon2Russia has been at war with us for more than a decade and it’s time people took that more seriously.
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia. Yandex says operations at the facility have completely stopped. Disruptions spread across Yandex services and hundreds of third-party companies and municipal services using Yandex Cloud infrastructure. #Russia
Medoyid_ua26Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just apps going dark. Ukraine hit the kill chain and the ad revenue with one strike. Moscow built its digital spine in a few giant DCs now sitting inside drone range.
Valpp713Great less bots, less trolls, less disinformation in EU and US Thank you Ukraine 🇺🇦
Mike Ukraine 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 NAFO 69th5These Data Centres clearly need their own Bingo Board on Jake Broe's show. Take them out.
Mopolis5Thats the fourth, I believe. Less propaganda shit to influence the midterms.
Raymond3Big blow for Trump! Trump will lose in Russia!
manita2and nothing of value was lost..
Sven-Erik Volberg129Yandex data center bingo continues
Euan MacDonald38Six of the Best for Fascist Russia's War Economy Even IF Ukraine decided to heed Trump's call for a halt on attacks on Russian oil refineries, Ukraine’s long-range strikes can still refocus on fascist Russia's war-economy bottlenecks by targeting: /thread
Elena Adaal20Knocking out Russian data centers will have positive by-effects because it will hamper the hybrid war efforts of Russia against EU. It would be good for EU and MS to consider this aspect when decisions are made on Ukraine funding packages.
Anka 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦3to poczują nawet w Moskwie 😁
Ukraine has reportedly damaged two Yandex data centres in two days, with Yandex confirming that one site in Sasovo was shut down and parts of a second facility in Kaluga were disabled. The incidents have disrupted some Yandex services. A viral Cloudflare chart appears to show a sharp fall in...
Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈22...a measure of Russian automated traffic, but its methodology and any causal link to the strikes have not been independently established. It is therefore too early to claim that Russian bot operations—or US election interference capacity—have been significantly disrupted.
atchijov.bsky.social7More! Shut them all down. We can really do without Putin’s bot army. And let’s watch carefully how it affects “popularity” of far right around the world.
biscuitburner101.bsky.social2Keep going, blow Russia up!
There are major disruptions to the Internet in fascist russia after Ukrainian defenders carried out a long-range drone strike on a Yandex data centre in Vladimir region.
Unintended consequences. According to cloudfare, the targeting of Yandex data centres by Ukraine has resulted in a massive drop in russian bots. Could this have an impact on the American mid term elections?
Tee14Elon lost 40% of Twitter traffic
Peter14I'm sure Musk will pick up the slack.
Adrian Bowyer10I'm not so sure it's unintended. Tor is susceptible to tracing if a large volume of data comes from a single location, and I'm sure both the Ukrainians and places like GCHQ are right on that.
Colleen6Could it also reduce the value of X?
1/3 The biggest news of the night was Ukraine's 3rd strike on a Russian data centre. All have been Yandex centres, which is kind of the Russian equivalent of Google, with apps such as Yandex Pay, Maps etc. Also, Ukraine has now hit the 3 Yandex 'supercomputers' developing AI.
Tim White822/3 This graphic gives you an idea of the scale of the effect of the new hit on Yandex. There are many more firms than this affected too. Yandex Taxi, which was completely disabled, now claims it is working, but with delays & glitches! Data re-routing is difficult for Russia.
Melody Lee Lacy1I love it when the returning fire suddenly stops after the third hit 🎯
Yandex data center disruptions threaten thousands of Russian companies relying on Yandex Cloud for websites, databases, payments and backend services. Many affected firms remain unidentified. The October 8 attack reportedly shut down the Vladimir data center...
The hedgehog22...disrupting Yandex’s AI supercomputer Galushkin... all three of Yandex’s supercomputers—Galushkin, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov—are now unavailable, potentially disrupting AI model training.
andrewsawyou.bsky.social1Gone quiet on twitter also.
randomerfluff1I wonder how long until Krasnov declares that "After the best ever phone call with president putin, russia will be temporarily borrowing datacenters in the USA and this is why we need more datacenters"
