I don't think Yandex DCs are used directly for military purposes much. It's more about harming Russian economy in general, including its highly prided digital infrastructure

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ponector 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Military personnel use the same Yandex services as regular people: delivery, maps, taxi, etc.

Also Yandex is a large cloud provider, they host a lot of government-connected companies.

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andy_ppp 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also Russia has been targeting Ukrainian digital infrastructure so they make these things fair game IMO.

	▲	youngtaff 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Russia is hitting everything in Ukraine… DC, power plants, rail, road housing Ukraine has a very targeted response but notably tries to minimise civilian casualties

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fartfeatures 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't have specific information about Yandex but don't forget how heavily involved Amazon were with things like: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/europe/ukraine-cybe... it wouldn't be a huge stretch to suggest that a lot of cloud hosting providers are neck deep in national security.