We will assess new claims as they come in. Russia’s information warfare operations are heterogeneous and distributed, often entrepreneurially, and generally operate in other countries. To the extent Yandex strikes may impact such operations, they would likely be in the area of toolchain dependencies: email, payments, AI, translations, etc. which can generally be swapped out for other solutions.
Strikes on Yandex overall are good strategic moves for Ukraine as they impact domestic operations and state information processing capacity. However any value such strikes may bring to information warfare operations is speculative and unproven. Our assessment is to not diminish the threat Russian information operations still pose, and to continue fighting on both of these fronts as if they are separate, if interrelated, concerns.
Just spoke to the Kyiv Independent and they are also sorting through these claims. Expect some informed coverage from them soon.
@davetroy
Hmm. We definitely need more data.
Kyiv, please destroy the remaining Yandex data centers so we can get better statistice.
@n1xnx Yes, let's run that experiment and see if if helps.