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Ukrainian drones attack Yandex data centre, halting operations in Russia
Russian Strikes
On 11 October, the Russian army struck two blocks of flats in Sloviansk, resulting in four confirmed injuries, according to the city’s mayor, Vadym Liakh.
On 11 October, the Russian army struck two blocks of flats in Sloviansk, resulting in four confirmed injuries, according to the city’s mayor, Vadym Liakh.
Operational disruption
Widespread outages across Yandex’s services affected navigation and taxi operations in multiple Russian cities, significantly impairing transport and communications for millions of users.
Widespread outages across Yandex’s services affected navigation and taxi operations in multiple Russian cities, significantly impairing transport and communications for millions of users.
Emergency Measures
“Everyone is receiving medical treatment,” Sloviansk’s mayor, Vadym Liakh, confirmed following the Russian strike on residential blocks, which injured four people.
“Everyone is receiving medical treatment,” Sloviansk’s mayor, Vadym Liakh, confirmed following the Russian strike on residential blocks, which injured four people.
Russian army strikes Sloviansk and Kyiv as Ukrainian drones hit third Yandex data centre
By Ядвига Полозова
Published on •Updated
On the morning of 11 October, the Russian army struck two blocks of flats in Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.
“At this point, four people are known to have been injured”, said the city’s mayor Vadym Liakh. “Everyone is receiving medical treatment”.
There may be people trapped under the rubble, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Warehouses are on fire outside Kyiv following an overnight Russian attack. Storage facilities at an industrial plant in the Bucha district of the Ukrainian capital caught fire, and firefighters are still working to extinguish the blaze.
A paramedic and a driver were injured when a Russian drone hit an ambulance in the Sumy region. According to the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Hryhorov, the medical workers managed to get out of the damaged vehicle on their own.
Emergency power cuts were introduced on Sunday in several regions of Ukraine because of the difficult situation in the energy sector caused by Russian shelling, the press service of the national energy company Ukrenergo said.
Previously published schedules for hourly power cuts are currently not in force. The emergency outages will be lifted once the situation in the power system stabilises.
Ukrainian drones hit Yandex, third data centre targeted
Overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian drones attacked Russian technology giant Yandex’s data centre in Vladimir, east of Moscow in the third reported attack on the firm in days.
The company said the centre’s infrastructure had been damaged and its operations completely halted. According to the latest information, there were no casualties in the attack.
Yandex added that it is continuing to assess the state of the infrastructure and cannot yet say how long repairs will take. This is already the company’s third data centre to be attacked in October.
Yandex, often dubbed “Russia’s Google”, runs the country’s most popular search engine, as well as food-ordering and taxi apps used by tens of millions of people.
Governor Aleksandr Avdeyev confirmed (source in Russian) the UAV attack in Vladimir and the ensuing fire. He said residential areas had escaped destruction. Residents of the houses closest to the attack site have begun to be evacuated.
In Vladimir, two substations supplying electricity to 5,000 residents were switched off. An hour later, the governor said that 80% of the power supply had been restored and heating and water supplies were back to normal.
Preliminary reports suggest that a supercomputer housed at the Vladimir data centre was damaged. An identical machine is located at the Yandex data centre in Ryazan that was also targeted.
Taxi and navigation disruption
In the wake of the attack, users experienced widespread disruptions to the company’s services. People were unable to order taxis in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Ulan-Ude, Yekaterinburg and other Russian cities.
“I can’t get anything to work at all”, said Yevgeny, a 69-year-old sitting behind the wheel of a Yandex-branded taxi near Moscow.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before. It hasn’t happened in the last five years. Now I don’t know what to do”, he said.
Similar problems were reported in Serbia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia. Drivers say they cannot log into the app or are facing navigation failures, while passengers see no available cars. There have also been reports of outages across many of the company’s other services.
On 9 October, drones attacked (source in Russian) Yandex’s data centre in Kaluga. On the morning of 8 October, the Ukrainian armed forces struck (source in Russian) a Yandex data centre near Ryazan. After that, malfunctions began in the internal systems of major Russian companies. Websites of major Russian media outlets also stopped loading.
Ukrainian monitoring channels reported strikes on Sunday on a movable railway bridge (source in Russian) in Rostov-on-Don, near the Black Sea. The regional authorities have not yet reported it.
In early October, Russia repeatedly carried out (source in Russian) strikes on key bridges in Kyiv. According to The Telegraph, against the backdrop of military setbacks, Putin decided to switch to attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and the bridges in Kyiv.
The crisis centre of the Krasnodar region reported that “fragments of drones” had fallen on the grounds of Sochi airport. A fire broke out in one of the administrative buildings, with no casualties. Debris also fell in a residential area.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said that overnight air defence forces had shot down 479 Ukrainian drones over 17 regions of Russia and the annexed Crimea.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
November 23, 2024
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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