Pjotr Sauer

And that led to complete...

shutdowns of these mega cities like Moscow and St.

Petersburg, where 2 million people work as food delivery guys, taxi drivers.

And the official reasoning behind this is that Russia says that it helps prevent Ukrainian drone attacks.

Experts and critics don't really buy it.

Ukraine has been able to continue their drone attacks.

You know, another reason is that the Russian security services, they fear Ukrainian partisan attacks on Russian generals, on high officials.

And many of these attacks are coordinated via Telegram, where Ukraine finds local collaborators on Telegram.

On Tuesday, a senior Russian commander was blown up inside his car outside Moscow.

in what appears to be the latest of this string of assassinations against high Russian targets.

So that could be another reason.

And I think the final reason is just that Russia wants to have control over the Internet and wants to be able to shut it down whenever it wants to.

And how are Russians reacting to this siege, really, and not being able to get online?

That has been the number one trigger this year for this anger that we've seen.

Russians have been forced to buy paper maps.

Oh, wow.

Some Russians have bought walkie-talkies.

So Russia is back to the 90s.

Since the start of the war, Vladimir Putin made this sort of unspoken social contract with the Russian population that I'll be waging this war and I'll mostly leave the big cities.

out of it.