Washington Post: Ukrainian troops’ Starlink connection suffered systemic failure amid Russian offensive

by magithrop

17 comments

  1. Man, I hope some day we get to see the kompromat putin has on all these people.

  3. Didn’t this already happen right at the start of the naval drone offensives? Did Elon pinky promise not to do it again, and Ukrainians believed him?

  4. Musk is a Russian stooge. Western intel needs to hurry up and leak the dirt Putin has on him.

  5. Look at the amount of starlinks destroyed in recent reports, about 7 in one day. Russia has obviously been able to track and target them in mass the past couple of days. Whether Musk is collaborating with Russia will have to be proven.

  6. Putin’s check to Elon must have cleared 💩

  7. Propaganda in action

    Is Kyivindependent typically dogshit?

    Everyone else mentioning the story, like

    https://unn.ua/en/news/on-the-day-of-a-new-russian-offensive-in-kharkiv-region-ukrainian-armed-forces-soldiers-starlink-fails-wp

    points out the issue is Russian electronic warfare (I don’t have a subscription to washington post so can’t read the original article, but other press writing about the WP article mention the jamming)

    > On May 10, when Russian troops launched a new offensive in the Kharkiv region, Starlink communication terminals used by the Ukrainian military stopped working due to Russian electronic jamming, making them “completely blind” and unable to track the movements of Russian troops.

    but Kyivindependent apparently didn’t have enough pixels to mention that important part.

    Not sure what they have to gain by pretending it was intentional on the part of StarLink.

    Most likely Russia has been getting some Starlinks on the black market and found some vulnerabilities they could use to jam them.

  8. Most likely ork signal jamming. Musk handed over all control of UA region Starlinks to the Pentagon. So if there’s a conspiracy that isn’t on the ground in the war zone, you’ll need to look to washington…

  9. People here are more anti-Elon than pro-Ukraine. The tinfoil hat thinking here is insane

  11. You guys have heard of the Solar Storm event? F*cks with satellites.

  13. Musk can’t be trusted. The military has to have it’s own satellite mesh for this sort of thing.

  14. Better be careful about criticizing ol’ Elon – he’s testy…

  16. I believe it’s called electronic warfare or countermeasures.

  17. Musk only supports Russia because China does. Elon has a yen for yuan, so he fully supports the honeypot that is Xi. Did you ever notice that he rebranded Twitter as X, with a slanted i on one leg of the X. Take a look and you will see Elon belongs to Xi.

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