BREAKING: Ukrainian strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a dramatic decline in automated online activity, particularly on Reddit, per Euronews

Oct 12, 2026 · 4:36 PM UTC

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Ukrainian drone strikes hit three Yandex data centres in Russia over four days in early October, in Sasovo on October 8, Kaluga on October 9 and Vladimir on October 11, according to NetBlocks, Cloudflare Radar data and multiple reports. Read more: unusualwhales.com/news/yande…
Yandex Data Centres Hit, Automated Traffic Falls

Yandex Data Centres Hit, Automated Traffic Falls

Ukrainian strikes hit three Yandex data centres Oct. 8 to 11. NetBlocks put Yandex Cloud at about 30 percent, but the Reddit bot claim remains disputed.

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We've been arguing with bad software all this time
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Can they hit those Indian scam call centers?
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@unusual_whales
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Crazy fire from Yandex datacenter
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Per reddit, now it's just NAFUENTESO lunatics shitting up the internet
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I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise
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I love how AI sources info from Reddit. What a farce.
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Will Reddit become less woke?
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Ukrainian drone manufacturer:
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What a stupid fucking war these two nations are in. So destructive, so many young men dying for the interest of politics and lines on a map
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All the Russian "Free Palestine" bots are gone👇
Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) profile pictureEyal Yakoby
@EYakobyOct 12
BREAKING: Following Ukraine striking a Russian data center, mentions of “Genocide” and “Free Palestine” have plummeted on X. This entire movement is one massive psyop.
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Yandex is Russian Google. Of course it runs lots of bots. If you took out Google, lots of bots would disappear as well. This is how search engines work: they scrape the web. All the time.
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Guys, if you still believe this dumb propaganda you’re ngmi.
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Kaspersky VPN does not work either.
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"BREAKING: Ukrainian strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a dramatic decline in automated online activity, particularly on Reddit, per Euronews" Huh......one of life's great mysteries.
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so much of the internet was bots all along huh
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So it's possible the redditors claiming everyone who disagrees with them were Russian bots were, in fact, Russian bots?
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Look at your comments alone for proof of the bot farm being offline
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Please strike the Chinese bot farms next.
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Fake nitter.cf/ValdemarOsted/status/2…
Valdemar Osted (@ValdemarOsted) profile pictureValdemar Osted@ValdemarOstedOct 12
There's a story going around: after the drone strikes on Yandex data centres, comments on AfD and MAGA accounts collapsed. We monitor 17,000+ politicians, media and civil society accounts in 30+ countries. 50,000+ posts a day. So we checked. We don't see it. 🧵
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I was told this was would be over within 24 hours 😭
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Conservative spaces mainly. Almost like they’re all Russian assets?! Crazy! Vote blue people, we need to clean house!
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🤖 Made with AI
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Reddit libturds getting played by Russian bots. Amazing!
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Wish retards on X would learn from this and realize its all bots making the goyim fight each other
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Ok that’s actually a great move from Ukraine
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Ukraine bombed the bots 🫡😂
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Sounds like a win for whoever still uses Reddit.
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>reddit is filled with bots and faggots >bot server goes down >now it's just a bunch of faggots
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No wonder i don't see all these fake bots/users posting about how bad ukraine is lol
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A day without bots, thank you Ukraine
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Whales spreading misinformation. Truly a remarkable time to be alive.
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@grok is this true?
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Russia's digital backbone is still there. Still up and running. Russia will replace what is damaged or lost. Ukraine.....not so much.
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