Yandex runs Russia’s biggest search engine, so most of its automated traffic comes from its crawler, which reads webpages to build search results. An outage in Yandex’s infrastructure meant the automated requests sent by this "bot" went down too.

A massive Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure left more than 600,000 people without power early Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, hours after warning his country had received no advance notice from Kyiv’s partners of a previous deadly round of strikes.

Ukraine has severely damaged three of Yandex’s six data centres in the past week, wreaking havoc in a country whose tech ecosystem is centred around one vast, state-aligned company. Launched as a search engine in 1997, Yandex has become Russia’s answer to Google, Uber, Amazon and OpenAI rolled into one.

KYIV: Heavy overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people in Ukraine and cut power to large parts of the capital Kyiv, authorities said on Wednesday (Oct 14).The attacks on multiple regions cam

President Donald Trump made a similar announcement a month ago, only for the two sides to continue their aerial attacks on each other’s energy facilities.

Since Russia invaded more than four years ago, Ukraine has become a global leader in military drone innovation, enabling its forces to grind a much larger enemy to a stalemate. But this technological force multiplier has come with an unsettling vulnerability: Ukrainian drone makers are highly dependent on electronics made by

KYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) - ⁠Ukraine ⁠is ready to ⁠halt its attacks on ​Russian oil refineries if Moscow ceases ‌its own strikes ‌on Ukrainian energy ⁠infrastructure, ⁠President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, noting ​that any steps to de-escalate the conflict must be mutual ​and come with real guarantees.

Twelve Democratic and Republican senators have called on Donald Trump to reverse an agreement with Vladimir Putin allowing Russian-origin diesel to reach global markets. They say the deal undermines US security and betrays Ukraine,