{"id":15026,"date":"2026-05-05T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/15026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:47:07","slug":"russia-limits-mobile-internet-ahead-of-scaled-back-ww2-victory-parade-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/15026\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia limits mobile internet ahead of scaled-back WW2 victory parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Guy Faulconbridge<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MOSCOW, May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia cut off mobile internet services to many customers in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of the annual \u200cMay 9 parade commemorating victory over Nazi Germany, which has been scaled \u200cback due to the threat of drone attacks from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia has this year cracked down on internet \u200baccess, blocking mobile services and forcing millions to turn to <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/vpn\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:VPNs;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VPNs<\/a> as part of what President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s opponents say is an attempt to shore up domestic control after four years of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kremlin said the limits had been introduced to ensure \u200csecurity amid a heightened risk \u2060of Ukrainian drone attacks, but for many Russians they have complicated payments, navigation and communication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Six Reuters reporters in different parts of the \u2060capital found that their mobile phones had no internet access. Telephone calls could still be made from many areas of Moscow, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian mobile phone operators said there \u200bcould be \u200bproblems with mobile internet due to the \u200bneed to ensure security over coming \u200cdays. Sberbank, Russia&#8217;s biggest bank, also cautioned that there could be issues with mobile internet and messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The taxi unit of Russia&#8217;s largest internet company, Yandex, said there could be problems with ordering taxis online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A monitoring site that tracks complaints about internet access reported mobile internet problems in a host of regions across European Russia, \u200cincluding Moscow and St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four years after Russia \u200binvaded Ukraine in 2022, the two sides are \u200bengaged in the biggest drone war \u200bever fought. Their long-range drones are targeting everything from command \u200cpoints to energy infrastructure, far behind the &#8220;death \u200bzones&#8221; created by short-range \u200bdrones along the front lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine attacked one of Russia&#8217;s biggest oil refineries on Tuesday, sparking a fire in an industrial area of the Russian \u200btown of Kirishi in the \u200cLeningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Defence Ministry said its forces had \u200bdestroyed 289 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; \u200bEditing by Mark Trevelyan and Kevin Liffey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia cut off mobile internet services to many customers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[753,8133,8134,8107,2863,243,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-15026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drone-attacks","9":"tag-european-russia","10":"tag-internet-access","11":"tag-mobile-internet","12":"tag-mobile-phones","13":"tag-president-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}