Yandex strikes disrupted crawlers, not troll networks
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian Yandex data centres disrupted the company’s web crawlers but did not stop political bot networks, the Verge and Techmeme reported. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had suggested the attacks reduced divisive activity on social platforms, but the supplied reports say the available data does not support that conclusion.
Why it matters
The distinction shows how difficult it is to measure whether attacks on internet infrastructure actually impair state-linked influence operations.
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Part of the October 14, 2026 brief.