Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on October 12 that Russian bot activity on social media had declined following Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland, Zelenskyy highlighted Russia's extensive network of social media bots, which he described as a tool for destabilizing online discussions. Zelenskyy noted that "everyone noticed" a reduction in Russian bot activity after Ukrainian drones struck data centers operated by Yandex, Russia's largest internet technology company, according to BBC News Ukrainian. The president's remarks followed reports of a sharp decline in automated internet traffic originating from Yandex's network, although the available data does not establish whether Russian propaganda operations were affected. According to an October 12 analysis by The Deep Dive, Cloudflare Radar data showed that automated HTTP requests from Yandex’s AS13238 network fell sharply after October 8 and approached zero on October 11. At 02:00 UTC on October 11, automated requests stood at just 0.3% of the chart's maximum, compared with 88.2% at the same hour a week earlier. Cloudflare classified 99.6% of HTTP requests to HTML content from the network during the seven-day period as automated. An HTTP request is a message sent by a browser, application,...