Inside Ukraine drone strikes crippling Russia's digital economy

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In a strategic shift, Ukraine has launched targeted strikes against critical Russian tech and data centre infrastructure, including key facilities owned by tech giant Yandex and banking giant Sberbank. What is driving this strategy, and how are physical attacks on server hardware disrupting digital banking, daily life, and AI development inside Russia? In this interview, Joseph Jarnecki, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), breaks down: The real-world consequences for ordinary Russians relying on Yandex and Sberbank digital services. How attacks on Sberbank’s mega data centre aim to disrupt Russia’s long-term AI and supercomputing ambitions. Why data centres are extraordinarily difficult to harden against drone and missile strikes. The 'dangerous normalisation' of targeting civilian cloud infrastructure and what NATO and Western nations must do to protect their own networks. Video Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Why Ukraine targeted Yandex data centr

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