Ukrainian armed forces struck five data centres belonging to Russia's largest technology companies in October, hitting three Yandex facilities, a Sber centre and a VKontakte server farm across five regions. The attacks triggered persistent failures in cloud services, payment systems and navigation apps across Russia, and experts say recovery could take months or years. The strikes also dealt a significant blow to Russia's artificial intelligence ambitions, as Yandex's supercomputers, among the world's most powerful, were damaged or destroyed.
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