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Russia Bans Mobile Communications in Occupied Lysychansk, Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk
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Residents of temporarily occupied Lysychansk in Ukraine’s Luhansk region have been unable to use mobile phones for several years due to restrictions imposed by Russian occupation authorities, Luhansk Regional Military Administration head Oleksii Kharchenko reported on August 29.
According to Kharchenko, the ban on mobile communications also applies to the neighboring Russian-occupied cities of Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk.
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“For several years, the population remaining in Lysychansk has been unable to use mobile communications. A corresponding ban imposed by the occupiers is in effect across three cities, including neighboring Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk,” Kharchenko said.
With mobile services unavailable, residents are instead being directed to use public payphones and fixed-line telephone connections at home, according to the regional administration.
Access to those alternatives, however, remains limited. In Lysychansk, most applications from residents seeking to have landline telephones installed have been rejected.
The restrictions in Luhansk region come amid broader efforts by Russian occupation authorities to limit access to communications and the internet across occupied Ukrainian territories.
In the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, occupation authorities were preparing to cut off internet access entirely. The resistance movement Otpor reported on March 17 that Yevgeny Balitsky, the Moscow-installed head of the occupied territory, had requested authorization from Russian authorities to introduce a complete internet blackout across the area.
Similar restrictions have also been imposed in temporarily occupied Crimea, where occupation authorities have introduced prolonged limits on mobile internet services that are expected to remain in place until the end of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
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