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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Thomas Escritt

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar digs in to win the war of words

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine's largest telecoms company, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

In a single hour, as a volley of Russian missiles wrecked homes, power stations, factories and playgrounds across their country, Ukrainians placed a record 67 million minutes of calls on Kyivstar's phone network.

"People are nervous and they are taking care of each other," Kyivstar's Chief Executive Oleksandr Komarov told Reuters in an interview. Normal evening peak traffic is around 50 million minutes.

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