In St. Petersburg, on the morning of March 9, there was a malfunction in the mobile Internet; In particular, it is detected by services Downdetector and “Failure.rf”.
St. Petersburg residents began complaining en masse about power outages at around 6 a.m. — shortly after the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, announced the threat of drone attacks in the region and warned of a possible “decline in mobile internet speed.”
The drone warning was canceled at 9am, resulting in a sharp drop in complaints about mobile internet not working on Downdetector.
And from the morning of March 9 as well I mentioned About mobile Internet malfunctions in the Arkhangelsk region. By noon, mobile internet in the area was working normally again.
For several days, starting on March 6, Moscow residents complained of interruptions in cellular communications and mobile Internet in various areas of the city. Two Kommersant sources in the telecoms market said the outages could be due to “external restrictions.” According to them, operators have received orders to limit the operation of mobile Internet in certain areas of the city. By the morning of March 9, the number of complaints, according to Downdetector and Sboi.rf, had fallen to a normal level.
In different regions of Russia, since the spring of 2025, mobile Internet has been regularly shut down, explaining this by security measures in case of a threat of attack by Ukrainian drones. It is assumed that during an Internet outage, whitelisted sites remain accessible.