Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

There has been a lot of discussion online about how the Yandex outage affected Russian influence bots online. I think facts are important and the facts do not support the idea that a significant portion of Russian influence bots were affected by the outage.

From the article: When traffic from Yandex networks collapsed, speculation spread across the Internet that Russian influence operations and malicious botnets had suffered a crippling blow. Cloudflare data tells a different story: across Cloudflare's network, there was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline or otherwise disrupted malicious activity on the Internet.