‘Turn Off Your Cell Phones,’ Captain Sasha Orders — And Welcome to the Pro-Russian Side of the Front
Today it seems impossible to predict how much territory will be ceded to Russia, but equally impossible to imagine the east of Ukraine will return to Kyiv’s control.

“Turn off your cell phones, otherwise Ukrainians can locate us.” The order comes from Captain Sasha, who sits in an armored military vehicle of the Lugansk People’s Militia, the pro-Russian soldiers fighting alongside the regular Russian army in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine.
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