A new “white list” from SpaceX is shutting off Russia’s illicit access to Starlink’s satellite internet across the front line.
At shortly before 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time on Feb. 5, Elon Musk retweeted a new guide from Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry for registering a Starlink terminal within UkraSubsequently, a series of alarmed Russian social media posts indicate that Starlink terminals were disconnecting en masse along the front.
Three Ukrainian commanders, speaking to the Kyiv Independent on the condition of anonymity, reported intercepting messages from Russian forces complaining about Starlink terminals failing in large numbers.
Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, a longtime commentator on electronic warfare more recently appointed as advisor to Defense Minister Mykhaylo Fedorov, said the “enemy at the front doesn’t have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe.”
He’s only doing it now because his name got out on the Epstein emails. The russians lost their kompromat on him.
and only temporarily
This is an interesting point. It could be pure coincidence but we can’t overlook the fact that Musk’s actions noticeably changed from helping to hinder Ukraine’s war efforts not too long after a phone call with Putin.
Always the ones you most expect.
I’m surprised he doesn’t overtly support the Russians, like most of MAGA
Maybe all of DOGE was about finding Epstein files content, and failed.
And now that they have been released, Musk realises there is no kompromat on him so he can recover some PR points or something
They embarrassed him many years ago, it’s the whole reason SpaceX exists.
Can you elaborate for the uninformed?
Before SpaceX, back when Musk had his X.com/PayPal money, he tried to buy an ICBM from Russia with the purpose of modifying it to launch a mission to Mars*.
The last meeting they had about it, Russia basically laughed him out of the room after they’d already tried to fleece him. So he founded SpaceX to get there instead.
Early SpaceX is pretty wild.
Good observation. Now, on top of that he might have privileged information about the imminent fall of the ruSS economy … making him lose his horrible bet in favor the invaders.
It’s hard to believe that they don’t have much more than the public.