Ukraine's access to the internet is under attack from Russian rocket strikes. The people are fighting back with death-defying repair crews and truckloads of satellite internet.
As a result, she lost her job as an English translator.
She now works online as a tutor. If an air raid siren happens during a lesson, she asks the young students, or their parents, if they'd like to go shelter."In cases when there is a particularly disturbing day or there had been a missile strike, I cancel the lessons or reschedule them."After every Russian air strike, repair crews rush to restore electricity generation and transmission.
"It's big, really very, very, very big work," he said, speaking over Zoom from the Ukrainian capital.The United Nations reported in December that Russia had destroyed half of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Working at this speed is dangerous in itself. Sometimes, in addition to this, the technicians are being shelled.So far, 57 technicians have been killed by enemy fire, Mr Kharchenko said.Internet repair crews also brave danger to patch cables.
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