Yandex, a Russian company, has updated its user agreement, adding an expanded list of force majeure circumstances that exempt it from liability for failure to fulfill obligations, including drone attacks and missile strikes.
Yandex, a Russian company, has updated its user agreement, adding an expanded list of force majeure circumstances that exempt it from liability for failure to fulfill obligations, including drone attacks and missile strikes.
As reported by Russian media, citing web archive data, as of October 9, 2026, this item did not yet exist in the company's official documents.
According to the updates, force majeure circumstances now officially include the consequences of the use of weapons, military equipment, aircraft, as well as shelling, explosions, man-made disasters, and acts of government. The list separately mentions terrorist acts involving UAVs and missile weapons.
Yandex's press service said the update is designed to unify the rules. "The changes are of a clarifying nature and do not change existing legal mechanisms," the company's representatives explained.
Recall that on the night of October 11, 2026, Ukrainian drones attacked a large-scale Yandex data center in Vladimir with a capacity of 50 MW, after which the facility completely stopped working. This incident was the third in a week: earlier, on October 8 and 9, the company's data centers in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and in Kaluga were attacked, which provoked large-scale disruptions in the work of Russian online services.
After the attack on Vladimir, bot traffic from the Yandex network dropped almost to zero. These are automatic requests to sites from programs - search crawlers, services and parsers. In addition, in a number of regions of Russia, Yandex Go, Yandex Pay, Yandex Yeda, Yandex Pro, Alice and other services have stopped working, and users in various cities across the country are massively complaining about the inability to call a taxi or order delivery.
