15:44 12.01.2018

Vodafone-Ukraine cannot restore communications with "LPR" if cable cut on occupied territory

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Mobile phone operator Vodafone-Ukraine will not be able to reconnect communications lines on the territory of the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") if cables were severed in Russia-occupied areas of the territory, the company's press service told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

A company official said there is currently information that a fiber-optic cable was damaged in the Anti-Terrorist Operations (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine.

"Subcontractors are determining whether they will have physical access to the location of the break in order to carry out repairs. If the break was in areas not controlled by Ukraine, no access will be available," the official said, adding that more than one third of Vodafone-Ukraine equipment in occupied areas of Luhansk is not working.

Earlier the so-called communication's ministry of the "LPR" said around 14:10 on January 11, 2017, Ukraine's Vodafone-Ukraine stopped work throughout "LPR"-held areas because of a severed communications line near the village of Olenivka bordering the other self-proclaimed republic, "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR").

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