Other impacted Russian services included a dating app, a real estate aggregator, a self-publishing book platform, and the website of the most successful professional soccer club in the Russian Premier League, according to Reuters.
Targeting data centers is just the latest example of critical digital infrastructure becoming wartime targets in 2026. After the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February, Iranian drones knocked out multiple Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Russia has been regularly launching mass missile and drone attacks against Ukraine’s cities, targeting power grid infrastructure, transportation hubs, and residential apartment buildings since President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine has recently been grappling with a shortage of interceptor weapons capable of shooting down Russian missiles and jet-powered drones, but the Ukrainian military has gradually ramped up its own medium-range and long-range drone strike campaign in response.
Ukraine’s drone strikes have focused on Russian military bases and supply lines, Russian-linked shipping in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, and Russian energy infrastructure such as oil refineries. In the summer of 2026, Ukraine also targeted multiple warehouses belonging to Wildberries and Ozon, Russia’s equivalents of Amazon.
In a sign of the potentially widening conflict, coordinated aerial and sea drone strikes sank two commercial ships in the Black Sea within the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries Romania and Bulgaria on October 5 and 6. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attributed those attacks to Russia.
