Overview
- Moscow has entered a sixth day of severe mobile internet disruptions, with throttling and selective shutdowns reported across multiple districts.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov called the measures lawful security steps tied to the war with Ukraine and gave no timeline for lifting them.
- A February amendment approved by parliament grants the FSB authority to order throttling or full shutdowns and removes operators’ liability for outages.
- The outages are crippling messengers, digital payments, identification and courier apps, with some Russian media reporting that emergency calls may fail in parts of the city.
- Operators were reportedly told to test a government whitelist that keeps state‑approved services reachable as many Western platforms work only via VPN, while daily business losses are estimated in the tens of millions of euros.