Residents of temporarily occupied Donetsk are dissatisfied with the lack of mobile communication Vodafone, but they say that near the office of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE on the avenue of Ilyich appeared signal operator Life, reports LIGA. net.

"While there only Life catches. Vodafone ties are not, just on the outskirts, if you're lucky, "- said a local resident Maxim, whose name was changed for security reasons.

He specified that the matter concerns such areas of the city as Textilnik, Trudovsky and Railway Station.

Another source in the city added that it is almost impossible to buy sim-cards of the local mobile operator of the "Phoenix" fighters.

"Phoenix is ??in short supply, I wanted to buy today, but it's not on sale. All bought out. They say that this week there will be no sim cards. From it you could call at least to Lugansk, to relatives, where there is already Vodafone a few weeks, "he said..

According to him, the package of the mobile operator of the Fenix ??militants costs 120 rubles, subject to a minimum replenishment of 50 rubles. "For the majority - it was at least some way out because more than a month without communication it really beats on the brain, unfortunately," said the Donetsk resident Andrey.

The OSCE press service noted that observers saw a man walking on foot from another microdistrict in order to find a site on Kievsky Prospekt of Donetsk, where the signal of the Vodafone network was allegedly available from nearby areas controlled by Kiev.

"Observers saw at least three more civilians who walked around the area, apparently from similar considerations," the press service specified..

On January 11, 2018, it was reported that in the occupied Donbass Vodafone.