Ukrainian drones disrupt Russian data centers prompting firms to move workloads to Kazakhstan and Belarus

Russian businesses are increasingly searching for overseas backup computing infrastructure in Kazakhstan and Belarus following Ukrainian drone strikes on data centers across six regions in October 2026. The attacks disrupted facilities linked to major organizations including Yandex, VK, Sberbank, and the Federal Tax Service amid tight domestic cloud capacity. In response to the infrastructure constraints, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree requiring privately operated data centers to reserve 10 percent of their capacity for government use. Open article →