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Russia has disconnected the mobile internet in the occupied part of Lugansk region - Ova

According to Sergei Gaidai, the invaders are afraid that Ukrainian troops will calculate their location with the help of a mobile network. On February 11, the Russians switched off the mobile Internet in the occupied part of the Luhansk region. The press service of the Lugansk Regional Military Administration reported on Telegram. The invaders try to restrict Ukrainians access to information with the MOBI operator "ICS".

In some settlements in the region, the mobile Internet disappeared last week, and now it is not in all occupied areas. In this case, the operator stored the same fee for the package of services. "It remains to give the population the button phones and return 20 years ago," Ova was indignant.

According to the head of Lugansk Ova Sergei Gaidai on the air of the telecast, Russian troops are afraid of leakage of information and thus try to prevent Ukrainians from using a mobile network to determine the location of barracks, units, hospitals, warehouses with ammunition. All this happens against the background of strengthening the offensive and arrival of a large number of reserves of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. "Mobile communication works with interruptions.

People are in an information vacuum," he added to Telegam. The Lugansk Ova also reported that the Russians are massively searching for Ukrainian students and checking their smartphones. They are looking for content related to Ukraine. Readers reported focus that the mobile Internet on the occupied part of the Luhansk region has not been working for six months-from the summer of 2022. At the same time, operators still took a payment for the service.

On February 10, Sergei Gaidai stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had strengthened the shelling and pulled up heavy equipment to the Kreminna. According to him, the occupiers decided to break from the Luhansk region towards the city of Lyman in Donetsk. Earlier, experts told whether operators would raise tariffs for mobile communication and the Internet in 2023 in Ukraine.