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The Ukrainian military unexpectedly encountered a failure of the Starlink system equipment on the front line, which is supplied to the Armed Forces by the company of American billionaire Elon Musk. This is equipment for obtaining high-speed broadband satellite Internet access from anywhere. Now the APU has certain problems.
According to the Financial Times, senior Ukrainian officials say that outages lead to “catastrophic” communication losses. Moreover, as noted in the article, blackouts began to be observed when the Ukrainian military tried to break through the front line and wedge into the territory held by Russian troops.
The Ukrainian official noted that outages were observed both in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as in the districts of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lugansk.
“Communication failures were widespread and caused panic calls from the military to helplines,” the publication quotes the words of a Ukrainian official.
The organization that transfers Starlink equipment to the Ukrainian military admits that the problem may arise due to the fact that SpaceX is trying to block the use of the system by the Russian side. At the same time, Elon Musk and SpaceX did not respond to the publication’s requests for comment. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov also refused to communicate.At the same time, three Ukrainian soldiers from the front line confirmed that their Starlink equipment stopped working right during the battles.
Earlier, Elon Musk proposed a political settlement of the situation in Ukraine. This caused discontent in Kiev and a lot of insulting responses for Musk from pro-Ukrainian bloggers.