Not only rumours, facts. Cloudflare data shows bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks, after the third strike, Vladimir, this morning.
Oct 8 (Sasovo strike): dropped to ~57%
Oct 9 (Kaluga strike): dropped to ~49%
Oct 11 (Vladimir strike): dropped to ~0.4%
The connection is clear. Ukraine's attack on Yandex data servers hosting Russian automated influence operations on multiple social media accounts, such as Twitter/X, Facebook, and Telegram, across Yandex Cloud's domestic infrastructure. With 3 of 4 of Yandex's primary data hubs disabled and 78% of Yandex Cloud's network unresponsive, those bot clusters are effectively offline as of now.