Mobile internet has been shut down in St. Petersburg for the third day in a row
Mobile internet service in St. Petersburg has been experiencing disruptions and outages for the third consecutive day.
According to local sources, on May 19 and 20, internet access was unavailable for about 40 hours. On Thursday morning, service was partially restored, but later went down again. The Downdetector service recorded a sharp increase in complaints after 11:00 a.m., and hundreds of users are reporting issues with mobile apps and websites.
This is reported by Russian media.
It is also noted that even “whitelisted” services are experiencing glitches. Users complain that they cannot work or study normally. One city resident said: “It’s been the same thing for three days now—no internet and no warnings. What happened this time? And only in St. Petersburg. People can’t study or work.”
Over the past 24 hours, more than 12,000 St. Petersburg residents have complained about connectivity issues. The city’s Committee on Informatization and Communications explained that such measures are “necessary to ensure security.”
At the same time, it is reported that similar outages are being recorded in a number of other regions of Russia, including the Leningrad, Kirov, Vladimir, Murmansk, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Pskov, and Rostov regions, as well as in the Krasnodar Territory, Chechnya, and Dagestan.
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