Ukrainian mobile Internet service vanishes in Kherson Region – media

DENIS KARLOVSKYI - SATURDAY, 30 APRIL 2022, 22:30

Locals in Kherson Region have told Ukrainian journalists that mobile Internet from Ukrainian service providers is unavailable in the region, and there are problems with mobile calls too.

Source: Suspіlne Kherson

Quote: "In the Kherson region, mobile reception and Internet from all providers has disappeared. There is no service in Kherson, Kakhovka district, Novotroitsk or Chaplin communities."

Details: A Vodafone representative told reporters that the problem was not being caused by an accident affecting service providers’ capacities.

Suspilne correspondents say that in some districts of the region Kyivstar’s mobile service is working, but without access to mobile Internet.

Background:

• On 26 April, the Russian occupiers organised a "meeting" at gunpoint in the occupied premises of Kherson City Council and appointed collaborators Volodymyr Saldo and Kyrylo Stremousov as "people's" leaders.
• On 30 April, Saldo said that a referendum would not be held on the separation of the occupied Kherson Region from Ukraine, but promised to pay pensions in roubles.
• Residents are fleeing the occupied cities of Kherson Region to neighbouring areas.
• The invaders are forcing teachers to undergo training in the Russian school curriculum in occupied Crimea during the summer. From autumn onwards they will have to start teaching their students according to the curriculum taught to Russian students - no Ukrainian language, and studying the history of the occupying state without mentioning Ukraine's existence.