# Russian bot farms keep trolling after Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex

https://mins.news/en/item/98516

- The Verge, 2026-10-13 18:31 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/news/1010424/yandex-drone-strike-outage-disinformation-zelenskyy

> Zelenskyy said Russian data center strikes had reduced hate and division on social platforms. But an account monitoring state-backed troll farms reported that bot traffic remained steady, and the strikes appear to have disrupted Yandex web crawlers rather than disinformation or political operations.

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