In the wake of the counteroffensive that reclaimed vast swaths of Ukraine from Russian forces, teams of local technicians and engineers quietly arrived. Wearing helmets and bulletproof vests amid the ongoing shelling, often escorted by Ukrainian troops to avoid land mines, the workers barely waited to see the last of the retreating Russian soldiers before beginning to repair the damaged base stations and fiber-optic cables that left hundreds of towns and villages cut off from the outside world.
Ukraine’s dogged
