Putin has a new war ahead, and the enemy is VPNs

Robert Cantero

It doesn’t look like martial duel who whips Ukraine is about to end in a short period of time, at the time of writing, but it becomes quite clear to us that Vladimir Putin does not want his citizens to know about the atrocities what’s happening beyond. If we have already told you how Facebook and Instagram were banned in Russia and how Intel also took positions outside the country, now new front step opens.

This war does not need weapons, VPN under the gun of Russian intelligence

Russia It is going through decisive moments in its recent history, and the population does not want to be left behind. in tweet what we show you under these lines, you can see how app consumption habits have changed in the country before and after the invasion of Ukraine. Yes before the conflictamong the most downloaded applications were ZOOM, WhatsApp, TikTok or YouTubeafter the outbreak of hostilities VPN Applications were big beneficiaries, coming in nine of them in the Top 10.

How Times Have Changed: The 10 Most Downloaded Apps on the App Store #RussiaFebruary (left) and March (right) pic.twitter.com/rCAMHW3I0j

— Alexey Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) April 7, 2022

citizens want to be informedbut it’s not something Insert see with good eyes, and that’s why you to push back With bulk delete of such kind VPN Services. Igor Sushko – user Twitter who gave disturbing voiceas you can see in the information we leave to you below this paragraph, referring to Roskomnadzor, Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications. Shortly speaking, censorship authority countries led by Vladimir Putin.

🧵Although expected, but still very bad news: Roskomnadzor has begun work on turning Putin’s totalitarian state into a semblance of North Korea. About a week ago, one VPN after another was disconnected in #Russia.

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) June 10, 2022

According to this user, every day more Services vpn what are they devoted to the idea, which are currently, according to their own statements: Proton VPN, Opera VPN, VyprVPN, Hola! VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN and Vanish VPN. It is considered in May 2022what he 30% of the population of Russia uses this type of service to connect to the Internet, with a number of users close to 30 million people.

Present tense June 2022they seem to 300,000 people every day those who try to use it software find out what’s going on abroad. Putin may find a way to prevent people from learning the truth, but it does not seem that the Russian censorship body has the necessary fundsespecially at the level Hardwareto last much longer, creating digital darkness.