“3️⃣ Yandex is a search engine (among many other things). Which, by design, has crawlers (automatic robots) that browse web sites to index the Internet—which is how it then searches it on your behalf. Which (very likely) is exactly what CloudFare detects as (ro)bot traffic.”
Yandex
Yandex LLC is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company. Yandex Search is the largest search engine in Russia with an estimated 72% market share in Russia and a 2.8% market share worldwide. Yandex Taxi is the largest ridesharing company in Russia.
How to check that a robot belongs to Yandex | Webmaster
Some robots can disguise themselves as Yandex robots by indicating the relevant User Agent. You can check the authenticity of a robot using a reverse DNS lookup
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
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]
Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.
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.
Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Yandex: Ukraine schaltet russisches Google aus
Die Ukraine hat drei Yandex-Rechenzentren mit Drohnen angegriffen. Russlands Google meldet Störungen bei mehreren seiner Dienste.
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Drone Strikes Knock Out Yandex Data Centers, Bot Traffic Plunges but Partly Recovers
Drone attacks hit three Yandex data centers, and bot traffic from its network dropped sharply. Public data shows a partial rebound and includes search crawlers, limiting what can be inferred. We look at cloud recovery capacity and the impact on corporate paperwork.
Ukraine knocked out key Yandex data centers. The fallout is being felt across Russia. — Meduza
Ukraine has struck three of the six data centers belonging to Yandex, a Russian technology company, in Sasovo (Ryazan region), Kaluga, and Vladimir. Kyiv called the strikes a response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers, which Russian forces have been striking lately. The infrastructure of the company’s “iron heart,” as Yandex calls its data centers, has been damaged. Operations at two of them — in Sasovo and Vladimir — have been halted. At the data center in Kaluga, “several modules have been completely knocked out.” Outages have plagued the Russian internet since the strikes began: not only Yandex’s services but also the websites of other companies and even media outlets have been operating with restrictions. Users abroad have also complained about problems with Yandex’s apps. As of October 12, the company had not managed to restore their operation. Here’s a look at the consequences of the Ukrainian strikes that Yandex and its users have faced.
Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained
A wave of attacks against the Russian internet giant Yandex has sent shockwaves across the country in recent days and caused major disruptions to daily life.
Rapid-response fact-check: "Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is False | Joohn Choe
This is going on viral on Facebook today and it's unfortunately wrong. Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia did not cut
Russian bot farm misinfo, October 2026
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Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault