The strikes on Yandex data centers are real and confirmed by the company. Cloudflare data shows automated traffic from its network dropped sharply afterward, matching Euronews. Zelenskyy claimed fewer social media bots as a result.
However, that traffic is mostly Yandex search crawlers, not proven influence bots. Experts note troll farms use proxies and VPNs instead, platforms like Reddit already block Russian data-center IPs, and no clear drop in actual social media bots has been independently verified. The Reddit-specific claim is not in the Euronews piece.