Ukraine strikes Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers for a second straight day as new peace talks involving Kyiv, the U.S., and Europe get underway in Miami

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Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Kaluga region overnight, damaging infrastructure and injuring nine people, while Yandex confirmed a drone attack had disabled several modules at its Kaluga data center, following a near-identical strike on a Ryazan facility the night before that knocked out services across multiple Russian platforms.

Zelensky confirmed the strikes without elaborating, while Yandex described its data centers as the company's 'iron heart' and promised round-the-clock efforts to restore service, carefully avoiding any mention of why drones keep finding them.

Meanwhile in Miami, Witkoff and Kushner arrived to present the Ukrainian delegation with unspecified 'new ideas,' days after Rubio declared the war a 'strategic stalemate' with only two paths forward: negotiation or escalation. A Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia the same morning killed one person and injured fourteen, the kind of detail that tends to answer which path is actually being chosen.

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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

You can hold peace talks in Miami every week of the year, but it does not stop a bomb from landing on somebody's roof in Zaporizhzhia the same morning. Calling a war a 'strategic stalemate' is a nice bit of furniture polish on a house that is still on fire. The data centers and the apartment buildings are both getting hit either way, just depends whose turn it is to call it an accident.

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