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 @americansunlight.org found a Russian bot network focused on environmental topics in late 2024 called "EcoBoost." Looking at its activity, I see no recent dips.
Oct 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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]
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Ukraine hits Yandex data centers; Zelensky claims fewer bots, hate speech online, but no evidence of a link - i24NEWS
Users pointed to a drop in posts containing phrases like “Free Palestine” and “Genocide” on X after the strikes, but researchers said some of the graphs covered an unfinished day
Yandex crawler traffic drops 94% after drone strikes on 3 data centers
YandexBot requests on Cloudflare Radar fell to near zero on October 11 as a Vladimir site shut. Did bots on X and Reddit vanish too? Available data cannot say.
Yandex bot traffic drop isn’t a Russian bot farm collapse
0.4% Yandex bot traffic drop reflects stalled web crawling, not proof that Russian troll farms went offline. Read what the data shows
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
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.
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Zelenskyy: less bots, hostility on social networks after strikes on Yandex data centers
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that following Ukrainian responses targeting the data centers of the Russian company Yandex, there are fewer bots, provocations, and hostility on social media platforms.
Yandex Bot Traffic Fell 99 Percent Overnight. Here's How to Measure and Block the AI Crawlers Hitting Your Own Server
Last weekend two of Yandex's five data centres were hit by Ukrainian drone strikes, according to...
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).
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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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