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The war has led to the destruction of more than 4,000 base stations across all operators, plus 60,000 kilometers of fiber optic lines, while 12.2 percent of households have lost access to mobile services. Almost two years on, the country is still stuck rebuilding its telecoms infrastructure.
His view was shared by another Ukrainian telecoms provider, Lifecell, which also reported around 10 percent of its base stations being destroyed at its peak, at around 900 sites.
Some sites have even been damaged again after being fixed, says the operator. It’s not an uncommon tactic for invaders to attack telecommunications infrastructure during war, using it to quash communications and suppress locals from accessing the wider world. This happened from the outset of the invasion.
"We’ve had more than 10 percent of our sites completely or partially destroyed,” explains Sasha Ananyev, head of the network operation department at Vodafone Ukraine. That’s roughly 1,400 base stations, and does not include base stations located in Donetsk and Luhansk, areas that have been occupied by Russia since 2014.
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