Based on reporting by The Verge.
What happened
Ukrainian drone strikes have taken Russian data centers offline, directly affecting the infrastructure that supports Yandex services.
Cloudflare data shows a sharp decline in bot traffic after the attacks on Yandex servers, and the decline is limited to requests from automated Yandex web crawlers rather than social‑media troll bots.
As a result, the Yandex Pay digital payment service remains offline, and Yandex Fintech head Dima Pirogov said the company cannot give a precise restoration timeline but will keep working until the service is restored.
AIBeat analysis
This could leave Russian consumers without access to a major online payment option, potentially slowing e‑commerce transactions and forcing users to seek alternative methods while the outage persists.