Russia’s internet has experienced a major outage following a Ukrainian attack on a data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, The Moscow Times reports. Monitoring sites Sboy.rf and Downdetector reported a massive outage affecting services including T-Bank, Sovcombank, and Alfa-Bank, Avito, Google, YouTube, and RuTube, streaming platforms Ivi and KION, the educational resource Dnevnik. ru, the Russian Railways website, several mobile operators, and retailers such as Pyaterochka, Magnit, and DNS. The

Russia’s internet has experienced a major outage following a Ukrainian attack on a data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, The Moscow Times reports. Monitoring sites Sboy.rf and Downdetector reported a massive outage affecting services including T-Bank, Sovcombank, and Alfa-Bank, Avito, Google, YouTube, and RuTube, streaming platforms Ivi and KION, the educational resource Dnevnik. ru, the Russian Railways website, several mobile operators, and retailers such as Pyaterochka, Magnit, and DNS. The most severe disruptions have been reported in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Moscow residents have also reported an outage affecting the Mango Office cloud service. The disruptions began after Ukrainian drones attacked a Yandex data center in Sasovo overnight into Thursday. A fire broke out at the facility, and users reported problems with Yandex Disk, Yandex Documents, and other services. Following the attack, online bus ticket purchases in the Moscow region also became unavailable. Mostransavto attributed the disruption to the “suspension of operations at the data center that supports online ticket purchasing services.” Users have also reported difficulties accessing the websites of Russian media outlets, including RBC, RIA Novosti, Kommersant, Vedomosti, Interfax, and Vesti.