Moscow had grown dependent on thousands of illicit Starlink terminals smuggled into Russia, frequently via Central Asia, to maintain connectivity among units deployed along the front line.
Author: Kyiv Post
The latest setback for the embattled US Defense Secretary centers on his use of an insecure web connection, as one of his top advisers is sent packing, leaving a leadership void in the Pentagon.
The anti-Ukrainian position of billionaire Elon Musk, who owns Starlink via his space firm SpaceX, has prompted concerns about over-reliance on Statlink devices in Ukraine.
The ruling came after a lawsuit brought by Russia’s prosecutor’s office against the Yandex maps service to remove the images of what is considered to be a military installation.
The announcement came as YouTube in Russia reached unusable speeds following the Kremlin’s decision two weeks earlier to throttle access to the site over censorship rows.