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Ukrainian drone strikes damaged a data center belonging to Yandex, often described as 'Russia's Google,' disabling supercomputing infrastructure used to train the company's AI models. The attack is part of Ukraine's broader campaign to degrade Russian technological and military infrastructure. The strike illustrates how AI infrastructure has become a strategic target in the ongoing war, as both sides increasingly rely on advanced computing for military and economic purposes, with the loss of training capacity potentially setting back Yandex's AI development timeline.