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💻 Russians will need months to fully restore Yandex's operations after Ukrainian strikes — outages affected even bank accounts, intercoms, and neighboring countries, - Financial Times
Over the past week, three of Yandex's six data centers were seriously damaged: two were completely put out of service, and individual modules were damaged in a third. A source close to the company's leadership told the FT that core services are expected to be restored quickly, but they may run slower than usual. Returning to full capacity will take several months.
Millions of users have already felt the effects. Russians faced problems ordering taxis, accessing mail, and retrieving work files. In some cities, public transit schedules stopped displaying, and in Moscow residents of certain buildings could not open the barriers to their courtyards. Yandex Pay users lost visible account balances, although the company assures that the money is safe.
Disruptions affected hundreds of third-party websites and services, including Twinby and Vkusno — i tochka, and spread beyond the Russian Federation — to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus.
The FT's main conclusion is that the Kremlin created this vulnerability itself. For years the authorities built a "sovereign internet," pushed out Western services, and concentrated digital infrastructure around state-controlled companies. As a result, a strike on several data centers of a single company was able to disrupt the operation of a huge number of otherwise unrelated services.
As noted by Alena Yepifanova, an expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Russia became a victim of its own policy of digital centralization.
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