Ukrainian engineers scramble to keep mobile phones working

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An army of Ukrainian engineers are working around the clock to maintain and restore phone services functioning after Russian strikes take out the electricity that cellphone towers usually run on.

One entry ominously read, in English, “Low Fuel.”

It’s one of many Ukrainian towns that have had intermittent power, or none at all, in the wake of multiple rounds of devastating Russian strikes in recent weeks targeting the country’s infrastructure —Kyivstar is the largest of Ukraine’s three main mobile phone companies, with some 26 million customers — or the equivalent of about two-thirds of the country’s population before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion drove millions of people abroad, even if many have since returned.

He recalled rushing to the site of a destroyed cell tower when Russian forces pulled out of Irpin, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, earlier this year and getting there before Ukrainian minesweepers had arrived to give the all-clear signal.

 

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Won’t russia just do it agsin

End the war now.

NaziruSSian terrorists!

More power to Ukraines telecom technicians fighting the good fight to keep their nation connected 👏 🇮🇪❤️🇺🇦

Satellite phones are coming soon.

AP, have you been watching the world cup? You notice the team that spends the most amount of time in another team's territory usually scores the goal it needs to advance?

O sujeito presidiário tem dormido bem à noite , se alimentado e momentaneamente não padece de dor alguma. Eternamente grato. Tem se esquecido até de reinvidicar seu vale transporte pra quando sair da cadeia. Se algum dia sair, claro.😃

After Russian strikes took out the electricity that cellphone towers usually run on , they revved up generators to keep the towers on.

An army of engineers from Ukraine's phone companies has mobilized to help the public and policymakers stay in touch during repeated Russian missile and drone strikes .

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