“In the near future, access to sites in the .RU zone will be restored,” the message says.

The department clarified that a technical problem arose that affected the RU zone associated with the global DNSSEC infrastructure.

According to the Downradar service, users in Russia complained of a large-scale failure in the RU domain zone.

The governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, said that in the region and a number of other constituent entities of Russia, a massive technical failure was recorded among telecom operators, and specialists are working to eliminate it.