Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain its AI chatbot and other online services.
乌克兰的无人机袭击摧毁了俄罗斯科技巨头 Yandex 旗下的五个数据中心中的两个。由于 Yandex 运营着该国最受欢迎的搜索引擎，被称为“俄罗斯的谷歌”，此次受损导致其在维持人工智能聊天机器人及其他在线服务方面陷入困境。
The Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions of Russia on October 8 and October 9, according to Reuters. Those actions came as a direct response to a Russian drone strike campaign targeting Ukraine’s data centers, which has disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of Ukrainians since late September.
据路透社报道，乌克兰无人机于 10 月 8 日和 10 月 9 日袭击了位于俄罗斯萨索沃（Sasovo）和卡卢加（Kaluga）地区的 Yandex 数据中心。这些行动是对俄罗斯针对乌克兰数据中心发起的无人机袭击活动的直接回应，自 9 月下旬以来，这些袭击已导致数千名乌克兰人的手机和互联网服务中断。
“We continue to respond to Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, and we’re doing so with high precision,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a post on X. “Another data center was hit as well—our symmetrical response.”
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在 X 上发文称：“我们继续对俄罗斯针对乌克兰的袭击做出回应，而且我们是以高精度进行回应的。另一个数据中心也遭到了打击——这是我们的对称回应。”
The Ukrainian company Firepoint said its FP-1 one-way attack drones were involved in the latest strike on the Kaluga data center that is Yandex’s largest such facility, Reuters reported. The first Ukrainian attack targeted Yandex’s Sasovo data center that houses two of the company’s three supercomputers used for training the company’s YandexGPT AI model.
据路透社报道，乌克兰 Firepoint 公司表示，其 FP-1 单向攻击无人机参与了对卡卢加数据中心的最新袭击，该中心是 Yandex 最大的此类设施。乌克兰的首次袭击目标是 Yandex 的萨索沃数据中心，该中心存放着该公司用于训练 YandexGPT 人工智能模型的三台超级计算机中的两台。
Yandex said no employees were hurt but acknowledged disruptions to some services. Russian users reported problems accessing media websites and popular apps for the Ivi video streaming platform, the digital banking service T-Bank and the state-owned Russian Railways, according to the independent Russian news publication Meduza.
Yandex 表示没有员工受伤，但承认部分服务受到干扰。据俄罗斯独立新闻媒体 Meduza 报道，俄罗斯用户反映在访问媒体网站以及 Ivi 视频流媒体平台、数字银行服务 T-Bank 和俄罗斯国家铁路公司的热门应用程序时遇到了问题。
Other impacted Russian services included a dating app, a real estate aggregator, a self-publishing book platform and the website of the most successful professional soccer club in the Russian Premier League, according to Reuters.
据路透社报道，其他受影响的俄罗斯服务还包括一款约会应用程序、一个房地产聚合平台、一个自助图书出版平台，以及俄罗斯足球超级联赛中最成功的职业足球俱乐部的网站。
Targeting data centers is just the latest example of them becoming wartime targets in 2026. After the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February, Iranian drones knocked out multiple Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
针对数据中心的袭击只是 2026 年数据中心成为战争目标的一个最新例子。在今年 2 月美国和以色列袭击伊朗之后，伊朗无人机摧毁了巴林和阿拉伯联合酋长国的多个亚马逊数据中心。
But Russia has been regularly launching mass missile and drone attacks against Ukraine’s cities, targeting power grid infrastructure, transportation hubs and even residential apartment buildings since Russian President Vladimir Putin first launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
然而，自俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京于 2022 年 2 月首次对乌克兰发动全面入侵以来，俄罗斯一直定期对乌克兰城市发动大规模导弹和无人机袭击，目标包括电网基础设施、交通枢纽，甚至居民公寓楼。
Ukraine has recently been grappling with a shortage of interceptor weapons capable of shooting down Russian missiles and jet-powered drones. But the Ukrainian military has also gradually ramped up its own medium-range and long-range drone strike campaign in response to Russian attacks.
乌克兰最近一直面临拦截武器短缺的问题，难以击落俄罗斯的导弹和喷气式无人机。但乌克兰军方也已逐渐加强了自身的中远程无人机打击行动，以回应俄罗斯的袭击。
Ukraine’s drone strikes have focused on Russian military bases and supply lines, Russian-linked shipping in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, and Russian energy infrastructure such as oil refineries. In the summer of 2026, Ukraine also targeted multiple warehouses belonging to the Russian companies Wildberries and Ozon, which are Russia’s Amazon equivalents.
乌克兰的无人机袭击重点针对俄罗斯军事基地和补给线、亚速海和黑海中与俄罗斯有关的航运，以及炼油厂等俄罗斯能源基础设施。2026 年夏季，乌克兰还袭击了俄罗斯公司 Wildberries 和 Ozon 的多个仓库，这两家公司相当于俄罗斯的亚马逊。
In a sign of the potentially widening war, coordinated aerial and sea drone strikes sank two commercial ships in the Black Sea within the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries Romania and Bulgaria on October 5 and October 6. Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy attributed those attacks to Russia.
作为战争可能扩大的迹象，10 月 5 日和 10 月 6 日，协调一致的空中和海上无人机袭击在北约成员国罗马尼亚和保加利亚的专属经济区内击沉了两艘商船。乌克兰总统泽连斯基将这些袭击归咎于俄罗斯。