Ukraine Strikes Russia—Then the Bots Start Disappearing

Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦



I examine reports that Ukrainian drones struck Yandex facilities three times in under a week, including sites identified as Sosovo and Vladimir. Using the IODA connectivity figures discussed in the video, I trace the reported fall in Yandex cloud availability—from near-full reachability to roughly 65 percent, then about 22 percent—and the resulting disruption claims affecting Yandex Go, taxi, payments, retail, and banking-linked services.

I also assess the more consequential claim: that the outages coincided with a sharp decline in Russian bot traffic. I review Cloudflare figures, reported shifts around pro-Kremlin accounts and AfD messaging, and claims involving MAGA discourse and health misinformation—while separating observable traffic data from viral overreach. The strategic stake is whether attacks on digital infrastructure can impose meaningful costs on Russia’s war-supporting economy and information operations, and why pressure should be directed at Putin rather than Kyiv.

I also gave additional time to Ryan McBeth and others who nuanced this story. Weird to kind of retract your video in your video, but this is more of focusing.

3 comments

  1. Support for MAGA, Afd, Palestine and Iran disappeared overnight. It’s time to take out the rest of them. Make sure mafia land will never have the ability to interfere in elections for decades.

  2. Ukraine did something in a short few days what the West wasn’t able to do in decades: shut down the bot farms, propaganda outlets, and tools of interference.

    • Maybe this is the real reason for Taco having a tantrum. Maga Abdul from India can no longer post his BS.

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