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Taras Mishchenko Editor -in -chief Mezha.media. Taras has over 15 years of experience in IT journalism, writes about new technologies and gadgets.
According to three sources, Musk instructed the senior engineer SpaceX, a company that manages the Starlink network, to deactivate the satellite coverage in the Kherson area, which was then tried to release Ukrainian troops. On the company map, at least a hundred Starlink terminals immediately became “dead zones”.
The leading Ukrainian units lost their connection, the drones stopped transmitting the video, and the artillery could not fire due to lack of coordination. According to the military source, this led to the breakdown of the Russian troops in the Beryslav area.
Despite the fact that the Armed Forces were eventually released by Berislav and Kherson, the order Mask became the first documented case when he deliberately limited Starlink over the war zone. Some of the SpaceX staff were shocked, and military officials in the US and Ukraine are concerned that the entrepreneur had a real impact on the war.
Musk publicly denied such actions. In March 2024, he wrote in X (earlier Twitter): “We would never have done so.” But the sources of Reuters claim that the decision to turn off was related to the fear of a mask about possible nuclear escalation by the Russian Federation in response to the rapid advance of the Armed Forces. According to the former White House employee, his concern was shared by some American officials.
Starlink has become a critical tool for the Armed Forces since the beginning of the Russian full -scale invasion in February 2022. The terminals provide a stable satellite Internet that allows you to keep in touch, control drones and coordinate artillery. To date, more than 50,000 terminals, funded by SpaceX, US governments, Poland, Germany and other partners have been supplied to Ukraine.
Despite the incident, Starlink is still actively used in Ukraine, but Ukrainian officials continue to look for alternatives that could supplement or replace Starlink if this service is unavailable, Reuters said a high -ranking government official. The Government of Ukraine has expressed interest in European satellite systems, such as Govsatcom, an EU project aimed at combining satellite resources of Member States and Industry to provide services to governments.
However, in private conversations, some Ukrainian officials say that the available Starlink alternatives have restrictions. “It takes time and money,” said a high -ranking government official. From Starlink, he added, “we have a working system.”
Musk himself boasted the importance of Starlink for Ukraine. “My Starlink system is the basis of the Ukrainian army,” he wrote in March in X. “The entire front line will fall if I turn it off.”
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Taras Mishchenko Editor -in -chief Mezha.media. Taras has over 15 years of experience in IT journalism, writes about new technologies and gadgets.
According to three sources, Musk instructed the senior engineer SpaceX, a company that manages the Starlink network, to deactivate the satellite coverage in the Kherson area, which was then tried to release Ukrainian troops. On the company map, at least a hundred Starlink terminals immediately became “dead zones”.
The leading Ukrainian units lost their connection, the drones stopped transmitting the video, and the artillery could not fire due to lack of coordination. According to the military source, this led to the breakdown of the Russian troops in the Beryslav area.
Despite the fact that the Armed Forces were eventually released by Berislav and Kherson, the order Mask became the first documented case when he deliberately limited Starlink over the war zone. Some of the SpaceX staff were shocked, and military officials in the US and Ukraine are concerned that the entrepreneur had a real impact on the war.
Musk publicly denied such actions. In March 2024, he wrote in X (earlier Twitter): “We would never have done so.” But the sources of Reuters claim that the decision to turn off was related to the fear of a mask about possible nuclear escalation by the Russian Federation in response to the rapid advance of the Armed Forces. According to the former White House employee, his concern was shared by some American officials.
Starlink has become a critical tool for the Armed Forces since the beginning of the Russian full -scale invasion in February 2022. The terminals provide a stable satellite Internet that allows you to keep in touch, control drones and coordinate artillery. To date, more than 50,000 terminals, funded by SpaceX, US governments, Poland, Germany and other partners have been supplied to Ukraine.
Despite the incident, Starlink is still actively used in Ukraine, but Ukrainian officials continue to look for alternatives that could supplement or replace Starlink if this service is unavailable, Reuters said a high -ranking government official. The Government of Ukraine has expressed interest in European satellite systems, such as Govsatcom, an EU project aimed at combining satellite resources of Member States and Industry to provide services to governments.
However, in private conversations, some Ukrainian officials say that the available Starlink alternatives have restrictions. “It takes time and money,” said a high -ranking government official. From Starlink, he added, “we have a working system.”
Musk himself boasted the importance of Starlink for Ukraine. “My Starlink system is the basis of the Ukrainian army,” he wrote in March in X. “The entire front line will fall if I turn it off.”