Ukrainian drones hit Russia's biggest data centre
Sberbank said its systems remained normal after the strike, while regional officials reported fires, damaged homes and at least one death.
- On Wednesday, Ukrainian drones struck a major Sberbank data center in Balakovo, Saratov region. Ukrainian defense manufacturer Fire Point confirmed the operation, with OSINT monitoring group Exilenova reporting explosions beginning at approximately 4 a.m.
- This strike follows three similar drone attacks on Yandex data centers in Ryazan and Vladimir over the past week, establishing a clear pattern of Ukrainian operations targeting Russian digital infrastructure.
- The targeted complex, valued at more than $1 billion, is part of a major data center project. Reports indicate the attack also struck a nearby transport terminal and the industrial zone of the MZ Balakovo steel plant.
- Sberbank First Deputy CEO Alexander Vedyakhin claimed "all of Sberbank's systems and services are operating normally," yet reports indicated more than 80 services were affected. Saratov Governor Roman Busargin confirmed one person was killed.
- Designed to host approximately 3,000 server racks and up to 120,000 servers, the facility supports Russia's state-backed GosTech platform and is scheduled to host Russia's biggest supercomputer by 2027.
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Ukrainian drones struck Sberbank’s massive data center in Balakovo, a site billed as Europe’s largest and slated to host Russia’s biggest supercomputer. Sberbank says its systems are operating normally, but the strike follows Ukrainian attacks that have disabled half of Yandex’s data centers, answering Russia’s own campaign against Ukrainian ones.
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The attack on the Balakovo data center, owned by Sberbank, the largest bank and technology company in the country, followed the three attacks last week on data centers owned by Russian technology group Yandex. Article Ukraine hit the largest data center in Russia VIDEO appears first in Romania TV.
It's a massive project worth over $1 billion.
After the SC of the Russian Federation launched a campaign to target Ukrainian information and computing centres and communication nodes, Russian security and IT experts warned: it is worth waiting for a response to mirror action and to prepare quickly to protect ourselves from the attacks of our counterpart.
Drone hits data centre of Russia's largest bank
Sberbank is Russia's largest bank by assets and number of clients. The attack appeared to be the latest in a retaliatory campaign of Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian internet infrastructure. Yandex, Russia's largest technology company, has reported at least three drone strikes on its data centres since the start of the month. "We confirm the attack on the data centre," Sberbank's deputy chairman Alexander Vedyakhin was quoted as saying by the…
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