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The Ukrainian army unexpectedly encountered a system failure of the Starlink system equipment on the front line, which is supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the company of the American billionaire Elon Musk. It is a device for receiving high-speed broadband satellite Internet access from anywhere. Now Ukraine's armed forces are having some problems.
According to the Financial Times, they say the blackouts are causing a “catastrophic” loss of communications. Moreover, as stated in the material, outages began to be observed when the Ukrainian army tried to break through the front line and wedge into the territory held by Russian troops.
The Ukrainian official noted that the outages were observed in both cases. in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“Communications breakdowns were widespread and caused panic from the army to help lines,” a Ukrainian official quoted the report as saying.< /p>
In the organization , which is carrying Starlink equipment by the Ukrainian military, admit that the problem may be due to SpaceX trying to block Russian use of the system. At the same time, Elon Musk and SpaceX did not respond to the publication's requests for comment. He refused to communicate and the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov. At the same time, three Ukrainian soldiers from the front line confirmed that their Starlink equipment stopped working directly during the battles.
Recall that earlier Elon Musk proposed a political settlement of the situation in Ukraine. This caused discontent in Kyiv and many offensive reactions from pro-Ukraine bloggers for Musk.