Engineers who kept Ukraine’s port city online have gone missing or died in the carnage inflicted by Russia’s siege. Hope remains that Ukrainian cities knocked off the internet map will come back online fast—once the shelling ends.
had been forced out of Mariupol when the Russians shelled its offices and its infrastructure. Ukrtelecom, a provider for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is the biggest fixed-line operator in the country and was once the monopoly provider.
Lifecell, another of Ukraine’s major providers, hasn’t had service in Mariupol since February 27, so quick was the destruction of its telecommunications hubs. A spokesperson for the company said that “destroyed transmission sites or damaged optical cables in the main and backup routes” were to blame. Now it was impossible to get staff in safely to make the necessary repairs, they said.
In Donetsk and Luhansk, in the eastern part of Ukraine, Lutchenko said he’s in frequent contact with a farmer who’s going back and forth to a generator to refuel it. “Every day, some guys are coming, checking and helping us to keep them on the network,” Lutchenko said. “Because it’s occupied territory, we cannot reach them, so they’re helping a lot. We’re calling them partisans.”
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