The Russian occupation administration has begun informing the local population of temporarily occupied Crimea about the complete shutdown of mobile internet.
Formally, this is justified by “security reasons” and “preventing cyber sabotage,” but in reality, it is part of a broader strategy to integrate Crimea into the Russian information control and censorship system, as well as to isolate it from both the Ukrainian and global information spaces.
Additionally, the Security Service of Ukraine records numerous cases of artificial internet access restrictions in the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson regions.
In July 2025 alone, Russia registered 2,099 cases of internet shutdowns — an all-time Russian record.
