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Ukrainian drones struck several of Russia's largest data centers in recent days, including Yandex facilities in Ryazan, Kaluga and Vladimir regions and Sberbank's primary processing center in Balakovo, Saratov region (an 82 MW facility with up to 120,000 servers). The strikes caused major outages affecting taxi apps, maps and cloud storage for millions of users in Moscow, St. Petersburg and beyond; Yandex's stock fell nearly $1 billion over two days and the company waived cloud and software fees in response. One person was reported killed in the Balakovo strike. Russian officials, including at a Kremlin meeting convened by Putin on cybersecurity, scrambled to respond, with Rostelecom proposing a