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“The Internet is running smoothly this morning,” he said Wednesday. 15 minutes source. “Social media, gadgets and emails have recovered.”
This was also confirmed by the Lithuanian Embassy in Minsk, which, like the entire country, operated without an Internet connection for almost three days.
Internet outages in Belarus began on Sunday, during the presidential elections. One by one, all the websites of the opposition parties and the media that criticized the regime were blocked, as well as Western social networks, telegrams, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
Opponents of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime have linked the internet disruptions to massive attacks by militias and special forces against peaceful protesters and residents, as the infrastructure of the Belarusian internet network is state-owned.
However, Belarus’ National Center for Computer Incident Response (CERT) has announced a large wave of DDoS attacks against the country’s BY-NET Internet infrastructure ahead of the elections. The CERT said the sites of the Belarusian KGB and the Belarusian Interior Ministry had also been targeted.
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