by The Ukrainian military star link systems had dropped two and a half hours overnight, a high -ranking commander confirmed as part of a global disorder of the satellite internet provider.
The armed forces of Ukraine are strongly dependent on thousands of SpaceX’s Starlink terminals for battlefield communication and drone operations, which proves to be resistant to espionage and signal interpretations in three and a half years of combating Russia invasion.
The largest international failure of Starlink on Thursday, caused by internal software failure, threw tens of thousands of users offline.
“Starlink is over the entire front,” wrote Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine drone forces, on Thursday at 10:41 p.m. (1941 GMT).
An antenna of the antenna of the broadband system donated by Elon Musk in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Getty Images)
He updated his post later to say this on Friday around 1:05 a.m. that the problem had been solved. He said the incident had highlighted the risk of dependence on the systems and demanded that communication and connectivity methods were diversified.
“Fighting missions were carried out without (video) feed, the battlefield was carried out with strike (drones),” wrote Brovdi.
Elon Musk watched on May 30, 2025 (AFP/Getty) during a press conference with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on May 30, 2025.
Oleksandr Dmitriev, the founder of Ochi, a Ukrainian system, centered the feeds of thousands of drone crews over the front, said Reuters that the failure showed that the strip of cloud services for command units and the relay of Battlefield -Drone Enlightenment was a “great risk”.
“If the connection to the Internet is lost … the ability to carry out combat processes is practically disappearing,” he said and called for a step towards local communication systems that are not dependent on the Internet.
Although Starlink is not active in Russia, the Ukrainian officials have announced that Moscow’s troops are also widespread.
Elon Musk network apologized for the failure on Thursday evening: “The network problem was solved and the Starlink service was restored”, wrote the company’s official X account at 8:15 p.m. ET on Thursday. “We understand how important connectivity is and apologize for the disorder.”
Musk has released the news again after he had personally apologized for the failure and calmed down the users that she would only be temporary. “SpaceX will fix the cause to ensure that it does not happen again,” wrote the Tech billionaire.
