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Ukraine: buses struck as data centres become targets too
Protection has to include journeys people cannot simply give up.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, following its aggression in 2014. Kramatorsk lies near the frontline in eastern Donetsk region; Pryluky is further north. The 7 and 8 October strikes hit transport and housing, while Ukrainian drones strike Russian data infrastructure.
Two city buses were operating on the Kramatorsk street hit by a Russian strike on 8 October. Ukrainian authorities report at least 33 deaths, and police describe a glide bomb, in the Reuters/AFP account carried by ABC. People who need to cross their city are exposed while doing so.[1]
The previous day, a strike on a five-storey apartment building in Pryluky killed 22 people, including five children, according to the same report. These attributed tolls cannot establish a monthly trend on their own. They do show how ordinary activities, sleeping and travelling, remain dangerous.[1]
Digital services in Russia also come under attack. On 9 October, Yandex announces that Sasovo has shut completely following the night of 7–8 October, and part of its Kaluga infrastructure is out of service after another attack. The company reports no injured employees at either site and gives no firm restoration date.[2][3]
Reuters reports Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledging the Kaluga strike as retaliation for Russian attacks on Ukrainian digital infrastructure. The expanding targets bring into the war services used far beyond the teams running the facilities.[4]
Pulse founder Alexander Savitsky tells Reuters his dating app and its Yandex backup are inaccessible, with no confirmation of lost data. Yandex declined to say whether its supercomputers were damaged. The company says it has arranged for clients to move data and services to other cloud providers. For Savitsky, the interruption also threatens users’ trust.[4]
How we reached this judgment
What changed
Strikes kill civilians in Kramatorsk and Pryluky. Ukrainian attacks also disrupt Yandex services.
Why it matters
Include essential travel in protection.
Where views differ
Residents and passengers
- What it sees
- Moving and getting home.
- What it wants
- Usable protection.
- What it omits
- Direct accounts are missing from these receipts.
Ukrainian authorities and rescue reporting
- What it sees
- Rescue and documentation.
- What it wants
- Sound the alarm and secure support.
- What it omits
- Official accounts come from a belligerent state.
Digital-service customers
- What it sees
- Keeping a business working.
- What it wants
- Restore service and backup access.
- What it omits
- One customer cannot measure all damage.
The provisional judgment
Strikes establish continuing exposure without erasing successful local protection.
Movement: Strengthened
The receipts
The records we consulted and what they establish. Sources can have interests of their own.
- Russian attack on bus stop kills at least 33 in Ukraine, officials sayReuters / AFP via ABC · 2026-10-08 · en
Authorities report at least 33 killed in Kramatorsk.
- What is happening to our data centers, the iron heart of YandexYandex · 2026-10-09 · en
Yandex describes outages and reports no injured employees.
- «Железное сердце» Яндекса — что происходит с нашими дата‑центрамиYandex Cloud · 2026-10-09 · ru
Russian version of the same company account.
- Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside RussiaReuters via AOL · 2026-10-09 · en
A service and its backup are inaccessible; data loss is unconfirmed.