{"id":548,"date":"2026-10-10T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:08:04","slug":"ukraines-drones-knock-out-yandex-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE&#8217;S DRONES KNOCK OUT YANDEX AI! | Ukrainian FP-1 strikes hit Sasovo and Kaluga facilities \u2014 including supercomputers used to train YandexGPT \u2014 after Russia\u2019s campaign against Ukrainian data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine just put \u201cRussia\u2019s Google\u201d on the casualty list. Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out <strong>two of five<\/strong> Yandex data centers, leaving the search giant scrambling to keep its AI chatbot and other services online, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/\">Ars Technica<\/a> reported Oct. 9, 2026 (citing Reuters).<\/p>\n<p>Strikes hit facilities in the <strong>Sasovo<\/strong> and <strong>Kaluga<\/strong> regions on Oct. 8\u20139. Sasovo houses two of Yandex\u2019s three supercomputers used to train <strong>YandexGPT<\/strong>. Firepoint said its FP-1 one-way attack drones hit the Kaluga site \u2014 Yandex\u2019s largest. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it a \u201csymmetrical response\u201d after Russian drones hammered Ukrainian data centers and knocked mobile and internet service for thousands since late September.<\/p>\n<p>Yandex said no employees were hurt but acknowledged service disruptions. Russian users hit snags on media sites, Ivi streaming, T-Bank, and Russian Railways, Meduza reported via Ars. Dating, real-estate, self-publishing, and even a Premier League club site wobbled too, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: in 2026, the cloud is a front line \u2014 and training GPUs are fair game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/\">Ars Technica (Reuters \/ Meduza)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian FP-1 strikes hit Sasovo and Kaluga facilities \u2014 including supercomputers used to train YandexGPT \u2014 after Russia\u2019s campaign against Ukrainian data centers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-yandex-drone-ai-hit-1010.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}