{"id":15458,"date":"2024-02-13T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/ukraine-claims-russian-forces-using-starlink-network-in-occupied-areas\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:46:09","slug":"ukraine-claims-russian-forces-using-starlink-network-in-occupied-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/ukraine-claims-russian-forces-using-starlink-network-in-occupied-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine claims Russian forces using Starlink network in occupied areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Ukraine\u2019s Defence Intelligence\u00a0claims\u00a0it has confirmed the use of Starlink satellite communications by\u00a0Russian\u00a0forces in occupied areas.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            It says it has intercepted conversations which indicate the Starlink terminals are being used to provide internet access to Russia\u2019s 83rd Air Assault Brigade operating in the Donetsk region.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX company, which owns Starlink, says it does not do business of any kind with the\u00a0Russian\u00a0government or its military.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cIf SpaceX obtains knowledge that a Starlink terminal is being used by a sanctioned or unauthorized party, we investigate the claim and take actions to deactivate the terminal\u00a0if\u00a0confirmed,\u201d the company said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Starlink, which uses a network of satellites to provide broadband, says its service will not work in Russia, although the statement didn\u2019t address whether it would work in occupied\u00a0Ukraine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The service plays a crucial role in Ukrainian battlefield communications. Last year, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, said \u201cabsolutely all front lines are using them.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Ukraine\u2019s claim follows\u00a0revelations about the satellite system\u2019s\u00a0use in the war made in a biography of Starlink\u2019s owner Elon Musk, written by Walter Isaacson.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            According to an excerpt from the book, Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company\u2019s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they \u201clost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,\u201d Isaacson writes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Musk\u2019s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk\u2019s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s Defence Intelligence\u00a0claims\u00a0it has confirmed the use of Starlink satellite communications by\u00a0Russian\u00a0forces in occupied areas. It says it has intercepted conversations which indicate the Starlink terminals are being used to provide internet access to Russia\u2019s 83rd Air Assault Brigade operating in the Donetsk region. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX company, which owns Starlink, says it does not <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}