A broken fiber-optic cable in central Russia interfered with web gain access to for almost 4 million customers throughout 21 areas, authorities stated Wednesday afternoon.The damage follows a prevalent web interruption on Tuesday that impacted telecom suppliers and platforms such as Google, WhatsApp and TikTok across the country.Russias state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, associated Tuesdays blackout to a short-term disruption in connection but did not provide further details.
Some expertsspeculated that Roskomnadzors efforts to set up censorship tools might have triggered the disruption.Wednesdays cable television damage occurred in the republic of Tatarstan, Roskomnadzor said.The damage caused a degradation of broadband gain access to services in 21 regions of the Russian Federation, impacting around 3.8 million customers, the agencys network keeping an eye on center said, without naming the specific regions.Roskomnadzor stated repairs were anticipated to be completed by Wednesday evening.