Russia’s media regulator on Wednesday blocked Google’s news aggregator service, accusing it of providing access to materials containing “unreliable” information about the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Roskomnadzor, the communications regulator, said it had acted on a request from the office of Russia’s prosecutor general. It said access to the online resource news.google.com has been blocked. “The American online news resource in question provided access to numerous publications and materials containing inauthentic and publicly important information about the course of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine,” the regulator was quoted by Russia’s state-run news agency Interfax as saying. In a statement, Google said it had confirmed that “some people are having difficulty accessing the Google News app and website in Russia,” Reuters reported. “We’ve worked hard to keep information services like News accessible to people in Russia for as long as possible,” the statement read. It comes weeks after the Russian …