MSOpinion Makeshift wifi spot reconnects shattered Ukraine city “A TV screen on a stand beside the queue showed a Ukrainian channel broadcasting news about the war, while people huddled on the ground charging their telephones from extension cables--
“A TV screen on a stand beside the queue showed a Ukrainian channel broadcasting news about the war, while people huddled on the ground charging their telephones from extension cables connected to the generator”Starved of news and contact with the outside world during six months of occupation by Russian forces, residents of recently liberated Izyum are grateful for a makeshift wifi spot in the shattered Ukrainian city.
Soon after the liberation, investigation teams found what they said were 447 bodies buried during the occupation.Residents told AFP Thursday that with electricity and mobile infrastructure networks badly damaged during the fighting, and still not restored, lack of information has kept them in the dark about what was happening.
“If too many people get connected at the same time the internet goes down, hence the 15-minute limit,” explained resident Olga German. A TV screen on a stand beside the queue showed a Ukrainian channel broadcasting news about the war, while people huddled on the ground charging their telephones from extension cables connected to the generator.Around the corner a half-torn poster hung from a billboard: “Russia for ever,” it said.“We were living in an information vacuum, we couldn’t get in touch with our relatives, and we could feel that the information we got from the Russians was not objective.
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