When the Drones Hit Ryazan: Cyber-Insurance, Force Majeure and the New Perimeter Risk

A Yandex data centre in Russia's Ryazan region caught fire this week and was taken offline after what the company described as a Ukrainian drone attack. Treat that sentence as the operative clause of a contract you did not sign. It restates, in the language of smoke and server racks, a question your insurance broker, your cloud-services counsel and your sanctions team have been circling since early 2024: when kinetic warfare lands on commercial IT infrastructure inside a sanctioned jurisdiction,…