Update: Senator Olga Kovitidi later claimed that Dozhd television took her comments out of context, clarifying that Internet outages in northern Crimea are the result of technical maintenance to expand network capacity to meet growing consumer demand. She claims Web service should be restored within the next 24 hours. Senator Kovitidi's apparent retraction comes despite an August 10 press statement by the local telecom SkyLine that Russia's Federal Security Service ordered it to cut Internet service to Crimean border cities, as part of a search effort to capture men accused of attacking police officers in the region.
سواء كانت شركة الاتصالات الروسية أو غيرها من المشاركين في قرار القطع، أم أن الحكومة لاتزال تعطل أنشطة الإنترنت في هذه المنطقة.