Russia-wide internet outage reported
Russians complained about internet provider outages. Users from Russia on the Downdetector portal reported disruptions to wired internet.
Consensus
- Russian users reported widespread internet outages.
- The outages affected multiple internet service providers and online platforms.
- Reports were collected via monitoring services like Downdetector and Detector404.
- The highest number of complaints came from Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and Samara Oblast.
- Issues were reported in Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
- The outages were described as short-term or temporary.
- Services including T-Bank, IVI, Kion, Steam, Discord, Telegram, and VK were affected.
Points of divergence
- IT analyst Mikhail Klimarev attributed the outage to a fire at Moscow's TEC-2O, which caused power loss to the MMTS-9 data center, a major internet exchange point in Russia. — tvrain
- The cause of the outage was unknown. — tg_currenttime
- GitHub, Microsoft Copilot, and Microsoft Teams experienced global outages on the night of August 21. — vedomosti
- The outage affected mobile operators, online stores, IVI, Discord, Steam, Telegram, and other websites. — tg_theinsider
- The outage primarily affected wired internet access. — tg_tvrain
Coverage (9 sources)
- Users in Russia complained about a massive internet outage across the country Service Downdetector records an increase in the number of... — The Insider
- Russians complained about malfunctions in internet services — Ведомости
- Russians complain about russia net work. In the last hour, users of the Downdetector portal left hundreds of complaints about the work of pro... — Дождь (Telegram)
- Russian users complained about brief internet outages. Data from the portal… — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Russians complain about the work of the Russian Internet — Дождь
- Users in Russia reported a nationwide massive internet outage — The Insider
- Russian users complained about brief internet outages. Data from the portal… — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Russians complain about the work of the Russian Internet — Дождь (Telegram)
- Russians complained about internet provider outages — Настоящее Время
Key entities
- Downdetector
- Russia
- Rostelecom
- MegaFon
- Discord
- Lovit
- Telegram
- TASS
- VKontakte
- T-Bank
- Steam
- Detector404
- IT Analysis
- Ivi
- Mikhail Klimarev