Maybe you know this, or maybe you don't.
Is your VPN client connected to a P2P server of that VPN service? Some VPN services disconnect you if you are on a non-P2P server of that particular VPN service. This mostly happens with FREE plan/versions of a VPN service. Is your windscribe premium or free?
I have ProtonVPN and I used the free version for a day and it disconnected automatically because the free servers don't allow P2P. And when I upgraded to premium plans, I selected a P2P server from the list of servers in that protonvpn app and my torrents worked fine.