Russia’s Supposed Catastrophic Cable Cut That Caused An Internet Black Out:

On January 14, Russia found itself in a massive communication black and internet blackout when the website that tracks these outages also went down. With this situation many theories sprung up with the more popular one being that a cable was cut in error. Many social media users were left wondering if this was the case.

A user claims that “People in Russia are reporting problems with communication services as websites are not working and even banks are unable to process payments.ver,”

In Russia, there are complaints about a large-scale failure of communication operators and websites - even payments in banks are not working.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Russia, there are complaints about a large-scale failure of communication operators and websites - even payments in banks are not working. <a href="https://t.co/1nTwVNy8H7">pic.twitter.com/1nTwVNy8H7</a></p>— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) <a href="https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1879180641306354060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Another social media user stated that “A massive internet failure is attacking Russia as all mobile communications are failing high level authorities have claimed. Google, Discord, and Twitch are just a few of the many services that have been impacted. Russia has also seen a national cellular blackout with numerous mobile companies ‘Beeline’, ‘MegaFon’, ‘Tele2’ reporting issues. On social media a lot of users have claimed that only Yandex, the search engine seems to be active but even then trying to click on the links doesn’t work. ”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A major Internet outage is happening in Russia right now, mobile communication is also offline, Russian media and Telegram channels report.<br><br>Services like Google, Discord, Twitch are not working. There is a massive failure with mobile operators — "Beeline," "MegaFon," "Tele2" are… <a href="https://t.co/4UibzhGX4S">pic.twitter.com/4UibzhGX4S</a></p>— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1879174114675507419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>