Not sure if its true
actually not sure if any news report is true lately
The weather reports are pretty good but even they are tainted by climate change bias and the perpetual drought drumbeat that local governments are so fond of
Omg, really?!
/Sarc
What actually happened is Russia put the firewalls up and prevent people from accessing “unfriendly” news sources after a month of having their dumbass evidence free statements on official news channels debunked by their own grunts’ Instagrams and live streams...
They additionally blocked modern encryption on their mobile networks so web traffic and emails can be snooped more easily.
The smart folks already bypass that by using vpn.
In occupied Ukraine Russia’s hooking the internet and mobile phone networks to the Russian systems. Thereby dialing back rge security by ten years. That’s how Ukraine uses geolocation and packet sniffing of the Russian network to see where the troops are.
A lot of Russian sites are completely accessible once you know how to work around Russia’s primitive walled garden stuff. The traffic is often unencrypted, so not hard to analyse.