Yandex reports Vladimir data-centre shutdown as taxi and cloud services are disrupted

Yandex says its data centre in Russia’s Vladimir region completely stopped operating after a reported drone attack on October 11, 2026, with cloud and consumer services disrupted. The Kyiv Independent’s Tamara Nowakowsky reports the shutdown through TASS, which cited the company.

Earlier on Sunday, Yandex Cloud reported power interruptions in the ru-central1-a availability zone associated with Vladimir and said its team was working to resolve the issue. The Tashkent Times also reported the company’s statement that the centre had shut down and the platform was operating in emergency mode.

Ostorozhno Novosti, cited by the Kyiv Independent, reported that Yandex Go users were unable to order taxis in Russia. Similar disruptions were reported in Serbia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia. Yandex Pro, the application used by taxi drivers and couriers, was also reported unavailable, alongside problems with internal support access and smart-home services.

ASTRA reported power disruptions following drone warnings, while Ukrainian monitoring channels circulated images said to show a nearby fire. The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify the images, damage or service disruptions.

The Tashkent Times reports several hours of Yandex Go disruption in Uzbekistan on Sunday morning. Users saw no taxi prices and could not place orders, while the public-transport section failed to show bus movements. Drivers and delivery couriers also reported problems.

Yandex Uzbekistan’s press service said some services were unavailable or operating with errors and its teams were working on restoration. It said the company uses distributed infrastructure, with tasks handled by servers in different countries, so a failure in one country can affect functions in another.

The company also said Uzbekistan user data were stored in a jurisdiction providing the protection required by law. Maps and Navigator were working normally, according to the Tashkent Times.

The local report describes a Yandex Go outage lasting more than an hour on October 9, the day of the Kaluga incident. It cites companies quoted by Gazeta as saying demand for alternative taxis increased. Uzum Market was disrupted after the Ryazan incident on October 8, with service restored on October 10.

The reported Vladimir incident follows attacks Yandex had publicly acknowledged. On October 8, a drone attack and fire at Sasovo in Ryazan forced a complete suspension of operations. The company said it could not yet determine when equipment could be restored. An October 9 strike in Kaluga damaged several modules and potentially disrupted services.

In an October 9 statement reported by the Kyiv Independent, Yandex called its centres critical infrastructure for its services and said employees were working around the clock on restoration. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on October 8 that Ukraine was responding to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.

The Kyiv Independent also reports that Yandex changed its user agreement on October 10 to include drone and missile attacks among force-majeure circumstances that may excuse contractual obligations. The financial cost and full restoration timetable for the latest outage remain unknown.