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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Joseph Campbell and Felix Hoske

Kherson residents ditch Russian SIM cards for Ukrainian ones

A local employee of Ukrainian telecom provider Kyivstar shows a handful of Russian SIM cards discarded by local residents after they switched to Ukrainian SIM cards in Kherson, Ukraine November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Hundreds of residents in the newly-liberated city of Kherson queued up in the rain to switch the Russian SIM cards in their mobile phones for local ones on Thursday, only days after the city was retaken by Ukrainian forces.

"We finally have our victory, we've been liberated. Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes," said 54-year-old local resident and seamstress Svitlana Kostikova, who said she had had no option but to use a Russian SIM card.

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