First time I've seen this sitting behind my shitty VPN. If the frontpage /r/normaldayinrussia posts didn't make you raise an eyebrow knowing their denying access to people for running a VPN should at least make you second guess.
But they forcefully redirect images to www.redit.com now, and you need to manually wget images if you want the biggest version, logged-in, VPN, or not.
The enshittification will continue until morale improves.