Ukrainian drones reportedly struck several data centers belonging to Russian technology company Yandex. Afterward, President Volodymyr Zelensky said there was less hatred, division and provocation on social media, while a widely shared Cloudflare chart showed a sharp fall in traffic on Yandex networks. Some users interpreted this as evidence that Russian troll activity and related activity by pro-MAGA, Reform UK and AfD accounts had declined.

Cloudflare and researchers disputed that interpretation. Cloudflare said there was no evidence that the attacks had disrupted social-media manipulation or other malicious online activity, and an expert said the bots measured in the chart were mainly web crawlers rather than social-media bots. Researchers from dTeam reported no change in traffic from known Russian accounts and bot clusters, while pro-Kremlin influence networks were still active. Experts said social-media platforms, rather than attacks on data centers, were responsible for identifying and removing coordinated networks that violated their rules.