🧵 (Un)surprisingly the Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots are still active today. Praising the Trump-Putin diesel deal, they are demanding an immediate lift of EU sanctions against Russia—claiming they are destroying European economies and provoking civil unrest.
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Kremlin-linked Matryoshka bot network spreads disinfo about a looming hantavirus pandemic in Europe, despite scientists pointing to low risk
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Yandex Strikes, Russian Bots and Influence Operations | Graphika | Graphika
Did strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots? Graphika analyzes viral claims involving AfD, MAGA and Reform UK and finds no notable decline.
Bot Traffic from Russian Federation | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from Russian Federation.
Bot Traffic from Russian Federation | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from Russian Federation.
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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
Russia-linked bot networks kept their weekly rhythm after drone strikes on three Yandex data centers—disinformation monitor LetsData
One network that spread fake Die Welt sites now pushes a fake Ukrinform site about mobilization in Ukraine, its analysts found.
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By popular demand: A follow-up thread on Russian bots, Yandex, Cloudflare, MAGA, AfD and "breathing easier" on social media. 1️⃣ We see no "dramatic drop" in traffic of Kremlin-aligned human trolls-for-hire targeting Russian domestic users (which we have been tracking for years).
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
Russian bot farm misinfo, October 2026
See in particular @antibot4navalny.bsky.social’s threads and graphika.com/blogs/yandex-strikes-russian-… Search terms: Ukraine, Yandex
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Re: Yandex, I hate to contribute to the disappointment of many, but adding to the pile that it doesn't seem to have affected much. We at…
I looked around in our datasets this morning and I’m also just not seeing it. I also feel that the people making these claims plainly do not…
Yandex Strikes, Russian Bots and Influence Operations | Graphika | Graphika
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The Russian Bots Went Silent. Or Did They?
