Half of Starlink terminals sent to Ukraine found in Russian-occupied areas, US agency says

https://kyivindependent.com/nearly-half-of-usaid-starlink-terminals-sent-to-ukraine-found-in-russian-occupied-areas-inspector-general-says/

44 comments

  1. Elon Musk? Helping Russia?
    I’m shocked. Also I have no eyes in my head, appearently.

  3. They were being used near the front lines. I’m wondering if a lot of them were captured when Russians overran Ukrainian positions.

  4. Wonder if that happened when elon turned them off?

  5. Since these should all belong to Ukraine, doea Starlink offer a ‘find your portable receiver’ program ‘find your phone’ style? Seems like a good way to get free recon.

  7. Seems like an intentionally manipulative headline designed to rile people up.

    Equipment of all sorts gets abandoned in war when people fall back.

  8. As suspicous they are of trump and musk I’d be afraid to use them they probably give away their info. better to pull an Israel and load them with charges for the Russians to find.

  9. frankly, whitelisting known ukrainian terminals, once (or even periodically) and disabling everything else in broad sector around ukraine and south russia should be almost trivial. And it would seriously damage russian communications. And Musk is not doing that.

  10. A working dish would be a high priority target on any battlefield, either for capture or destruction. Russians recently rounded up a lot of [peoples dishes](https://imi.org.ua/en/news/imi-source-russian-forces-in-luhansk-oblast-are-dismantling-ukrainian-satellite-dishes-under-the-i69677), I bet they picked up a few more from the *resident Ukrainians* there. It would need secure handshaking & enforcement to stop battlefield shenanigans …

    … or just someone with empathy running the company

  11. And you know Elon is complicit when Russians can still use the captured Starlink instead of being disabled.

  12. This should give Ukrainian intelligence an idea.. or 3. Reverse spying, sabotage.. geo track, get all the reverse Intel you can- maybe make some FAKE INTEL that’s read only on the terminal so it ends up high up the command ladder- then blow it up. This war stuff is easy! /s.

  13. From the article because the headline is iffy:

    >Ukraine’s Special Communications Service distributed them without tracking or usage restrictions, which “increased the risk of misuse for military or intelligence operations or theft by Russian forces,” the Inspector General’s report claims.

  15. So can we direct Elon to turn this mFers off that are in Russia?

  16. How accurate is this data?

    At Frontline gps doesn’t work at all (more correctly – it is spoofed)

  17. Nah, my best guess is Elonia and Donald helped Russian troops with surveillance in those areas.

  18. Going theory is you want russians using starlinks since they map out all their positions and communication. One day and an operation will ve carried out utilizing this access, after which Russians will stop using them out of safety concern.
    There are several gps antennas inside, they are on governemental contract plan, cant spoof its position despite several claims doing so, traffic goes through eu nodes and is fed straight into palantir

  20. If I had Russian soldiers overrunning my position, the last thing I’d be doing is picking up my Starlink terminal.

  21. Also it lets US intelligence monitor Russian communications.

  22. How can we be sure they aren’t being used against Ukraine?

  24. It must be a conspiracy to help Russia !!! .. fucken reddit….

  25. I suspect that we know very little about this war… just a bunch of oligarchs playing political games with poor peoples lives for and making power gaining moves.

  27. Honestly would not be surprised if Musk and Trump provided aid to Russia.

  28. I don’t believe anything the U.S. government says

  29. I bet Elon knew and has been helping Russia all along

  30. Remember when Musk kept shutting down service for Ukraine while trying to squeeze more money from the US? I’d want to see if those occupied territory were the cost of doing business with Musk.

  32. Any anywhere by any count were paid by jbiden, no dtrump. Shocker. And it’s “don’t condemn Israel you anti semite paying for it”. Pro wrestling is realer. Money fake, ai is future of productive fake then hopefully AsteroId

  34. Three years of the same and yall expecting different result.
    Keep feeding crack head, I’m sure it won’t happen next time.

  35. So they are working as intended. We know Musk supports Russia

  38. Could be a Trojan horse. Might not be. I’d probably destroy them if I were Putin. Might get tech to model their design, but other wise it’s stupid to use them.

  39. Isn’t that where they should be? lol the battlefield?

  40. If I’m reading the article right, they are saying roughly half of the 5000 terminals provided by the US are in Russian occupied territory. Ukraine has been provided a total of roughly 50,000 terminals in total by the US and other nations and private donations. So we are talking about roughly 5% of the total terminals, not 50%.

  41. Who would have ever thought that this would be a problem….. 😂😂🤣😂

  42. Elon Musk is autistic and insecure and wealthier than is politically viable. The billionaires need to be taxed back to the Stone Age. Just to save democracy. Throw Elon in jail for treason.

  43. Feel like that should be something destroyed if being overrun or during a quick retreat…

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