# Internet connectivity disruption in Belarus

**Country:** 🇧🇾 Belarus (BY)
**Date:** 2026-07-23
**Type:** Disruption
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** active

## Summary

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Belarus. 2 critical alerts recorded.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 67%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 2
- Anomaly Rate: 21.6%

## Evidence

- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Grodno
  - Observed: 2026-07-23
  - Confidence: 75%
  - [IODA entity dashboard (observation-day parameters; not one measurement)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/BY?from=1784764800&until=1784851200)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for City of Minsk
  - Observed: 2026-07-23
  - Confidence: 65%
  - [IODA entity dashboard (observation-day parameters; not one measurement)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/BY?from=1784764800&until=1784851200)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Minsk
  - Observed: 2026-07-23
  - Confidence: 65%
  - [IODA entity dashboard (observation-day parameters; not one measurement)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/BY?from=1784764800&until=1784851200)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Gomel
  - Observed: 2026-07-23
  - Confidence: 65%
  - [IODA entity dashboard (observation-day parameters; not one measurement)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/BY?from=1784764800&until=1784851200)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Vitebsk
  - Observed: 2026-07-23
  - Confidence: 65%
  - [IODA entity dashboard (observation-day parameters; not one measurement)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/BY?from=1784764800&until=1784851200)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.
- **Whether this is censorship** — this is a connectivity *disruption* (outage) signal, not confirmed intentional blocking.

## Data Sources

ioda

These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet connectivity disruption in Belarus [BY-2026-1085]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1085

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-04*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: BY-2026-1085*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1085*