Popular VPN protocols are not available in several regions of Russia

In some regions of Russia, they have begun testing the blocking of popular VPN protocols. This was reported by project the GlobalCheck and IT specialist and author of the telegram channel Escher II Philip Kulin .

According to Kulin, in Western Siberia and Krasnodar they are testing the blocking of popular VPN protocols and. is also not available in Rostov-on-Don IPsec . GlobalCheck confirms availability issues with IPsec and IKEv2 in "some regions."

The author of the telegram channel “For Telecom” and director of the “Internet Protection Society” Mikhail Klimarev claims that the inaccessibility of protocols is a bug, and not a targeted blocking.

On Thursday, May 26, the VPN service Windscribe spoke about connection problems among users from Russia.

Roskomnadzor began massively blocking VPN services in Russia in the fall of 2021. Among the blocked ones are Cloudflare WARP, Nord VPN, RedShield VPN, Opera VPN and more than a dozen other services.

Updated and corrected at 9:10 p.m. Klimarev's information has been added, and therefore the title has been clarified.