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A large fire is reported at the Proton electronics plant in Oryol, Russia. Ukraine's Defense Intelligence links Proton to Russia's weapons supply chain, including missile and air-defense systems. The flames are visible. The production losses are not yet verified. Video via Exilenova+

Earlier today, a fire broke out at Russia's Nikolskoye oil pumping station, part of the Druzhba pipeline network, following an overnight drone attack. Local residents reported a diesel storage tank burning. Morning footage shows flames and thick black smoke.

Saint Petersburg. VK data center. Results of a comprehensive digital asset audit. Physical. #VK #датацентр

Ukraine's Navy reports six Russian Su-34M bombers destroyed at Borisoglebsk airfield in a Neptune missile strike. A missile system originally built to defend the coast is now striking Russian military aviation deep inland. #Neptune #Su34 #Ukraine

Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Day FOUR. The Novoshakhtinsk oil terminal is still burning. #Russia

Today, another massive outage is being recorded in Russia. After the damage to its data centers, Yandex began organizing the migration of clients to VK Cloud, Selectel, and K2Cloud. Now, outages are being recorded across Maіl. ru and VK WorkSpace. In the case of Selectel, there are already confirmed signs of resource overload. For VK, the exact cause is still unknown. Are we witnessing a secondary cascading effect of the Yandex Cloud failure? #YandexCloud

After Yandex, attention turns to Sberbank's massive data center project in Balakovo. The planned facility has a ₽122 billion budget and capacity for up to 120,000 servers, with links to Russia's GosTech initiative. #Sberbank #DataCenter #GosTech