Post-Cutoff

Cloudflare Radar: Yandex Cloud traffic about 33% below the previous week after the Sasovo strike

Cloudflare Radar @CloudflareRadarX

Why it matters

First-hand network measurement of the first Yandex data-center strike.

Summary

Cloudflare Radar reports that after a drone strike caused a fire at Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Ryazan, traffic from Yandex Cloud (AS200350) ‘dropped sharply’: from about 22:30 UTC on Oct 7 (01:30 local time on Oct 8) it ‘averaged about 33% below the previous week and remains below normal levels’. Links radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as200350.

Metrics read 2026-10-12 via api.fxtwitter.com: 4,557 views, 22 likes.

Archived text

A drone strike caused a fire at #Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Ryazan, and traffic from Yandex Cloud (AS200350) dropped sharply. Starting around 22:30 UTC on Oct 7 (01:30 local time on Oct 8), traffic averaged about 33% below the previous week and remains below normal levels. #Russia

Cloudflare Radar: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as200350?dateRange=2d

Source: x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/2108122893028671604Archived 2026-10-12 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 4,571 views, 22 likes, 6 reposts, 1 reply (at fetch time)Media: image

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