A viral theory claiming Ukraine's strikes on Russia's Yandex data centres silenced pro-Trump bots across US social media is spreading faster than the evidence supports, as fact-checkers warn the Cloudflare figures behind 'Operation Quiet Piggy' measure something entirely different.
Between 8 and 11 October 2026, Ukrainian drone strikes hit three Yandex data centres in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. Yandex confirmed damage and that more than 80 cloud services went offline. Cloudflare Radar then recorded automated traffic from Yandex's network, catalogued as AS13238, falling to roughly 0.4% of its two-week peak.
