In the occupied Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Ukraine, Russian cellular communications from the mobile operator " According to The Moscow Times, since the beginning of June, the operator that replaced Ukrainian cellular networks has already sold about 200,000 SIM cards in the region.. At the same time, local residents complain about the quality of communication, as well as the restriction of access to instant messengers and the blocking of Ukrainian sites..

The brand does not yet have a representative office and a legal entity in the occupied regions, but it has the same technical support as the Crimean operator K-Telecom, which has been operating on the peninsula since 2014 under the Win Mobile brand, the publication found out..

You can pay for +7 Telecom communication services only through the Payberry payment system associated with Rossiya Bank and developed specifically for residents of Crimea.

The former and current owners of K-Telecom are associated with the structures of MTS, owned by AFK Sistema, billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, The Moscow Times points out.. The operator is now owned by the Moscow company Aisi Invest, whose CEO Pavel Kuznetsov worked for MTS for many years..

“Formally, MTS never had offices in Crimea, so as not to fall under sanctions. But Crimeans believe that K-Telecom, or Win Mobile, is MTS. In fact, the creation of a new operator on the peninsula is an attempt by large Russian mobile operators to encrypt themselves and get away from Western sanctions.. An open secret in Crimean,” said a former employee of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, who is familiar with the development of cellular communications in Crimea, on condition of anonymity..