Ukraine-Russia war latest: ‘Catastrophe’ for Putin as front line cut off from vital Starlink satellites
Russia is facing a “catastrophe” as its armed forces find themselves cut off from vital Starlink satellites.
On Thursday SpaceX founder Elon Musk asked those in Ukraine to register their Starlink terminals. The update was followed by a flurry of alarmed social media posts by Russian accounts suggesting they had been cut off from the service along the frontlines.
The “enemy at the front doesn’t have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe,” said Serhiy Beskrestnov, advisor to Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhaylo Fedorov, on Thursday.
Three commanders speaking to the Kyiv Independent reported intercepting messages by Russian forces suggesting they were being cut off in large numbers. The military uses the service to operate its military weaponry including drones.
Officials from Moscow and Kyiv concluded the second round of talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, with both sides speaking positively of the meetings.
Kyrylo Budanov, the top aide to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, said the two-day negotiations were “really constructive”. Volodymyr Zelensky said they will continue in the near future.
The talks came just hours after Ukraine accused Russia of launching a “massive” attack on railway infrastructure on Ukraine’s Sumy region.
