Unlike country's dominating export industries, the telecommunications, as well as the related Internet sector, remain largely unaffected by the global economic crisis, ranking high in European and global rankings. Telecommunications is one of the most modern, diverse and fast-growing sectors in the economy of Ukraine.
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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Others say Ukraine has no other choice because Russia was the one that brought war onto its cities.Ĭellar dweller Yevghen Polchikha seemed less concerned about the morality of housing soldiers in schools than he was about the possibility of the Grad rocket still sticking out of the ground blowing up.This article needs additional citations for verification. The controversial topic of military men occupying civilian buildings in times of urban conflict is every-present in the propaganda war being waged over Ukraine. Residents said the Grad volley at the start of the week appeared to be aimed at a grade school on the opposite side of the yard that housed one of the Ukrainian units defending the city. "They could be the Russians, and who knows what happens to you then." You never know these days whose side they are on," the 53-year-old said on his way back to his basement. "I am mostly afraid that some stranger might drive up to me and ask for my papers. This has left people such as coalminer Oleg Zaitsev worrying as much about the identity of the armed men whizzing around in battered cars as the shells randomly falling from the sky. The Ukrainians are fighting with all their might to keep the Russians from pushing south of a strategic river splitting the two cities. Living under shellfire for weeks, the trapped residents of Lysychansk have no running water, power or cell phone service Yasuyoshi CHIBA AFP The Russians are closing in from three directions on Lysychansk's sister city of Severodonetsk to the north. The Lysychansk broadcasts are adding to a heightened sense of paranoia that appears to reign across the utterly lawless streets of an expansive industrial zone teetering on the edge of the east Ukrainian front for weeks.
Russia has been transmitting its take on the news across eastern Ukraine throughout an eight-year insurgency that preceded the Kremlin's all-out invasion on February 24. Radio was a powerful Western weapon against the Soviet Union in the Cold War era that Moscow tried to jam. The concept of warring sides filling information vacuums with propaganda is not new. I have no idea who these voices are or where they come from." Information vacuum "When we still had the internet, we could watch the news. "The Russians are saying they are winning and the Ukrainians are saying they are," Natalia Georgiyevna said. The unidentified voices fade in and out and occasionally simply disappear.
UKRAIN RADIO INTERNATIONAL PORTABLE
The portable radio in the Lysychansk kindergarten cellar offers its seven residents the only link to the outside world YASUYOSHI CHIBA AFP This paralysing isolation is being compounded by haunting Russian and Ukrainian radio broadcasts that appear over random airwaves and present contradictory news. Some of the women in the kindergarten basement - so frightened they only divulge their patronymics instead of their last names for fear of being discovered and punished - said they had not ventured outside for two months. Most people who crawl out of their shelters during afternoon lulls in fighting make a beeline for the city's lone natural spring to stock up on water that they must boil to make safe to drink. Nearly three months of war have transformed this coal mining city of 100,000 mostly Russian speakers into a wasteland that lacks everything from water and power to cell phone service.
"I guess we still have the Ukrainians here, no?" Mysterious voices
UKRAIN RADIO INTERNATIONAL PATCH
"We do not really know anything," her neighbour Viktoria Viktorovna added from a corner cot positioned just outside the beam of light illuminating a lone patch of the dank cellar. Residents fear that the tail of end of a Grad rocket sticking out of the ground in front of their kindergarten could explode at any moment Yasuyoshi CHIBA AFP
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