They don't have that many.

They are allowed and a lot of them probably do.

The reason I mentioned Sberbank's datacenters as a critical point of failure for Russia's banking sector is because someone allowed them to have over 50% of the market. Yes on paper there is a Federal Antimonopoly Service but it's busy bankrupting small gas stations.

Russia's state veterinary inspection system used by RosSelKhozNadzor which oversees food inspections is down because it was operating on Yandex infrastructure. Meat inspections depend on it.

I was more thinking of what happens if this one in Skokolkovo were to be hit. It's operated by Sberbank, they have a few more but this I believe is the largest. Due to Russian laws they may not really have meaningful backup.

Side effect of Russian laws that don't allow the data to be moved to other cloud services easily.

The 1st comment immediately tries to make the best of the situation offering taxi services at higher prices via telegram DMs. The 2nd says who cares about the Taxi service, the Yandex Bank app isn't working. The 3rd is looking for a ride over the Styx for a 74 year old man.

The Russian comments under stories that YandexTaxi is offline are perfect:

And just to mention this, yesterday Yandex changed its terms of service saying drone attacks on its facilities are Force majeure.

After the strike on Yandex's Vladimir datacenter, YandexPay, YandexGo, YandexMusic and YandexTaxi appear to all be non functional. We might be 2 attacks on Sberbank datacenters away from a possible run on Russia's banks.

I would have caught it if we still had the capacity to track shipments in the Baltic and the Black Sea but we currently do not.

I am more saying as to why it would not have looked that much out of the ordinary as a shipment. What I can say is that if it was planned it was planned in August.

For the volume that's being discussed you need 5-10 shipments given the size of oil products tankers.

Country to country level agreements were exempt and Russia has the practice to send tankers in a direction where there are multiple possible buyers and wait for someone to offer to accept the cargo. It's more often done with oil tankers however.

I am going to eat my words as I was wrong, it seems that the Russian government within 24 hours has indeed partially lifted the ban on the export of diesel for 500 000 tons effective from October 10th 2026.

It's much rarer for tankers to go for oil products without end buyers as is the case with crude oil tankers from the shadow fleet.

Baltic, you need some time to charter an oil products tanker. Realistically give it a few weeks for delivery to the US.

The last statement is an outright lie, they are manually controlling the fuel market and can ship fuel if needed but it will take a few weeks and will be at the expense of Russian consumers.