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Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out Russian data centers in recent weeks, exposing vulnerabilities in Russia's hyper-centralized digital economy; Russian bloggers themselves have warned the country was unprepared for this kind of 'data center war.' A related outage at Yandex, often called 'Russia's Google,' caused a sharp drop in bot traffic recorded by Cloudflare. Analysts caution that the bot-traffic decline likely wasn't the kind of state-linked bot activity many assumed, but the incident underscores how infrastructure attacks are disrupting Russia's tech sector amid the ongoing war.