Russian expert said the Ukrainian Armed Forces were blinded after the attack on the Starlink data center
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Russian troops attacked the Starlink data center in Kyiv, which led to the blinding of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, military expert Oleg Ivannikov said.
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Why It Matters
Starlink provides communications and data transmission for the Ukrainian military on the contact line.
Russian troops blinded the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) thanks to a strike on a Starlink data center in Kyiv. This was stated by Russian military expert Oleg Ivannikov, his words are quoted by Paragraph.
According to the specialist, after the strike, the Ukrainian troops’ receipt of information from satellites will be critically slowed down.
“[These] technologies ensured the activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the line of contact (...) This will directly affect the front, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces were absolutely unprepared for such a strike,” he said.
Open Questions
- Has Starlink data center damage been officially confirmed?
- What is the real scale of the communication disruption in the Ukrainian Armed Forces?
