This is reported Center for Investigative Journalism with reference to the statements of the Russian government and open sources.
The occupation “administration” warns residents of the temporarily occupied Melitopol district that from May 1 in the region operator will work communications “Miranda-media”, which, according to the CJR, already provides access to cable Internet in the temporarily occupied Zaporozhye region.
How informed Gauleiter of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, in the future, the invaders plan to make Miranda-Media a single operator of mobile communications and cable Internet for all the occupied territories – these are the plans of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, which were announced by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko to the Russian state TASS agency.
According to the Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Miranda Media LLC was established in Simferopol back in 2004. Since 2015, it has been registered under Russian law.
The founders of the company are Rostelecom PJSC and Luxtrans Shipping Company LLC, the main activity of which, despite the name, is the provision of Internet access services.
In May 2022, Ivan Ivanovich Zima became the head of Miranda-media, who previously, according to According to Kommersantwas vice president for digital regions of Rostelecom, and is also the general director of Krymtelecom, created on the basis of “nationalized” that is, the Crimean branch of Ukrtelecom captured by the invaders.
Miranda Media announced vacancies in Donetsk and Mariupol. According to Kommersant, the company will operate on the networks of telecom operators Phoenix and Lugakom from the so-called DNR and LNR.
In the Zaporozhye region, there is no publicly available information about technical work or the search for specialists for Miranda-media.
How informed CJR, the occupiers are monopolizing the account for the provision of cable Internet in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region. All users of Melitopol and the Melitopol region have already been forced to sign agreements with the MirTelecom provider, which receives Internet through Miranda Media.
Also in the region are mobile operators MirTelecom and +7 Telecom, created specifically for work in the Zaporozhye region, as well as Phoenix from the occupied Donetsk.
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On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in the occupied Donbas. Russia launched missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and launched a direct full-scale invasion in four directions. The armed forces of Ukraine are rebuffing the enemy, the blitzkrieg plan – to capture Kyiv in two or three days – failed, the Russian army retreated from the capital. The Russian military commits thousands of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout Ukraine.
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