{
  "id": 13992427,
  "title": "The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/the-yandex-outage-probably-didnt-blitz-russian-bots",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-12T15:43:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009594/russian-bots-yandex-outage-drone-strikes-debunk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Meduza (English)",
        "title": "The Kyiv Independent: Russia wants sanctions lifted in exchange for halting strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/the-kyiv-independent-russia-wants-sanctions-lifted-in-exchange-for",
        "published": "2026-10-09T15:30:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BBC World",
        "title": "Russian search engine Yandex struggles after Ukrainian strikes on data centres",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/russian-search-engine-yandex-struggles-after-ukrainian-strikes-on",
        "published": "2026-10-09T17:14:44.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}