Separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region are launching their own mobile phone network, fearing that existing connections could be tapped by Ukrainian security services or have ceased to work as a result of damage incurred to connection cables as during fighting, according to Russian independent news agency Interfax.
Last April, the pro-Russian rebels, who hold large parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, declared themselves an independent state called the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). The rebels staged their own elections in November and have since presented themselves as a state, despite the fact that neither Ukraine, EU nor Russia recognizes their independence.
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Source: Newsweek
