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After Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers, Volodymyr Zelensky said social media suddenly contained fewer pro-Kremlin bots. But the data cited in support of that claim shows something different: automated traffic from Yandex’s network collapsed, largely reflecting disruption to its search crawlers and other automated services. We’ll look at what happened to Yandex’s infrastructure, what Cloudflare Radar actually measures, and why researchers who track disinformation networks have so far found no evidence that the strikes disabled propaganda bot farms.