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IPv4 and IPv6 are two different network stacks. Your IPv4 stack is hidden behind wireguard, but not the IPv6 one.
The correct way to fix your issue is to setup a second witeguard tunnel for IPv6, and route IPv6 traffic through it.
Edit: many comments advise to block outbound IPv6 traffic. Don't do that! It will add latency to all your requests as you will have to wait for them to timeout.
If you disable IPv6 at the kernel level there's no extra latency as nothing even tries to connect to an IPv6 address. It's a shame to have to do it, but does fix the issue.
Disabling it is fine indeed, but I saw many comments advising to block outbound traffic, so I warned against that.
Unfortunately I can't change the tunnel as it is provided by ProtonVPN.
Apparently they advise to disable IPv6. I'm a bit disappointed 😞