On the morning of 8 August, YouTube stopped working in many regions of Russia. Both the mobile app and the desktop version are down. This is widely reported by Russian propaganda resources, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
According to the service “Sboy.rf”, as of 11:20 a.m., almost 5,000 complaints about the hosting service were recorded.
The day before, the Russian authorities notified the country’s largest telecom operators that the speed of video playback on YouTube had been slowed to 128 kilobits per second. Alexander Hinstein, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, called the slowdown a forced step aimed not at Russian users but at the administration of the foreign resource.
Some providers have also warned about the possible closure of all Google services in Russia, the Russian portal Medusa writes, citing its sources in the telecommunications market.
Earlier , Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke to journalists about the video hosting failure. In particular, he said that the platform works fine on the phone. The spokesman refrained from recommending which VPN service Russian citizens should use.
Author: Anastasia Fedor