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Russian military uses Starlink inside Ukraine, intelligence confirms (kyivindependent.com)

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Russia has Starlink terminals and is increasingly using them on the front line in Ukraine, Ukrainian military intelligence confirmed on Feb. 11.

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[–] snekerpimp 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“And that is how you make a profit in a war, sell to BOTH sides”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or in this case, pretend to donate to the defenders and then charge them after the fact, and then give them away to the aggressor through third parties.

SpaceX says that they don't do any business with Russia, so these are either stolen, being sold by a third party illegally, or just showing up in unmarked boxes. Considering who Musk is, I will not be surprised to find out that he made this happen indirectly.

[–] cygon 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Didn't he mouth off about being able to shut down / deny service for any units if they are being used in bad ways or outside of their agreed territory (I think the context back then was about strapping Starlink to drones to attack targets / warships in Crimea)?

If so, he should have a nice map of Starlink units being active in territory occupied by Nazi Russia and elected to leave them active by choice. Plus someone must be paying the service fees, unless he is letting Russians use them for free but insists on billing Ukraine.