Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that NATO’s attempts to encroach on Russia's digital sovereignty have reached a dead end. “It is NATO structures led by the United States that are engaged in censorship and segregation in order to maintain, as they say, their own dominance and their own exclusivity in the digital environment,” she said.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia needs to develop the Rutube video hosting service until it can compete with YouTube.