Yandex Strikes Hit Web Crawlers, Left Russian Bot Farms Intact

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted the company's web crawlers, not Russian influence operations. Tracker antibot4navalny reported Russian bot traffic remained steady, while Kremlin-aligned accounts continued posting false claims about EU sanctions. In this author's view, conflating crawler outages with capability loss risks overstating kinetic effects on information operations.