10/13/2026
YES: Ukraine knocked three Yandex data centers offline in four days, and Russia's bot traffic fell off a cliff.
Yandex is basically Russia's Google. Cloudflare data shows bot traffic from its network fell by about 94% after the strikes.
Russia spent weeks bombing Ukraine's data centers first, and Zelensky says Kyiv simply hit back.
Then the internet changed. He says "it suddenly became a little easier to breathe" on social media, with less hate, less division and fewer provocations once Yandex went dark. A lot of people noticed.
"A lot of people, a lot of people noticed it, and there was less hate, less division and fewer provocations because there were fewer bots."
"And it's pretty clear where those bots were coming from," he added.
And the midterms are weeks away.
So do the math. Data centers run the bots. Bots push the lies that move voters. And the billionaires, Musk, Ellison and the rest of the tech elite, are racing to build more of them in American towns, with Musk already owning the platform.
Meanwhile Putin's Pal Donald Trump is demanding that Ukraine get "a new president" for hitting the country that meddled in our elections.
"Europe is not the one making everything more difficult," Zelensky said.
Ukraine just did American voters a favor that our own government wouldn't, and Trump's reward is a call for Zelensky to be replaced.
THANK YOU, President Zelensky. We see what you did, and we're grateful.
