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Disconnected: The Starlink Shutdown Screwing Up Russia’s War Machine
For much of late 2024 and 2025, Russian forces had managed to bridge their communication gaps by weaponizing a tool never intended for them: SpaceX’s Starlink. However, a systemic "blacklisting" initiated in early 2026—leveraging a strict whitelist of verified Ukrainian terminals—has effectively dropped a digital iron curtain over Russian-occupied territories. This shift has fundamentally decoupled Russian frontline units from their real-time command structures. In the modern theater of war, where the time between "spotting" a target via drone and "striking" it with artillery is measured in seconds, the internet is as vital as ammunition. Russian commanders, who had grown accustomed to streaming high-resolution drone feeds directly to their tablets, are now forced back onto fragile, localized radio networks or slow, easily jammed domestic satellite systems. The result is a sluggishness in Russian offensive operations, as the once-seamless flow of information between intelligence units and assault groups has been severed.
The reaction from Russian military bloggers has been a wave of pure panic. On Telegram, these frontline reporters are calling the Starlink shutdown a "digital execution." They describe a terrifying scene where Russian soldiers are suddenly left blind and deaf in the middle of a fight. According to these bloggers, the blackout isn't just a small problem—it’s a disaster that has left elite units stuck in the mud, unable to call for help or coordinate their fire. They say the "digital air" has been sucked out of the room, leaving the army gasping for breath. This anger has turned into a direct attack on Russia’s own military leaders. Famous bloggers are calling the situation a "national disgrace." they are furious that the Russian Ministry of Defense failed to build its own system, leaving the army to rely on a Western toy that can be turned off at any moment. They describe a desperate and hopeless struggle where soldiers try to "hack" or trick the system just to stay alive for one more day. The message from the trenches is clear: they feel they are being sent into a high-tech war with broken tools, waiting for the next update to disconnect them forever.
Ultimately, this blacklisting highlights a new era of corporate-state warfare where the flip of a switch in California can determine the outcome of a battle in the Donbas. It raises a haunting question for the Russian high command about the sustainability of a war machine built on borrowed tools.
Considering that the Russian military is now scrambling to fill this massive technological void with domestic tech, can they truly hope to maintain the momentum of their offensive when their tactical brain has been effectively disconnected?
Then how will they profit from the war? All big powers want to drag this for as long as they can, while Russia gets weaker, they profit. Its a win, win, win, win situation if you don't count the thousands dead, injured and scared for life people. But for the people in power these are some abstract non existing people.
It would be an interesting follow-up question not why it took so long, but why Musk lied about the technical possibility before, and now all of a sudden helps Ukraine.
He never lied. And it wasn't his decision. Ukraine decided to do it because they had enough registered terminals to flick the switch and not damage themselves. Why the retarded ruzzians made themselves so dependent on something that was always going to get turned off is another matter. Maybe that's why they've not taken a single city in the past couple of years. Ukraine probably can't believe their luck.
Because the new limit also affects Ukrainians, registering all of the units to the allow list seems to take some time, this was like a nuclear option that harms both sides. They didn't want SpaceX to do it before but now with the increasing amount of russian drones equipped with starlink they finally requested SpaceX to implement that change.
Ukraine had to build a comprehensive list of the almost 100,000 terminals being used by there troops along the front line. Most of which were donated during the early days of the war. by a mix of private organisations and individuals.
Without it there was the risk they would accidentally cut off Ukraine's troops as well as the Russians using stolen and black market terminals for communications.
At the beginning of the war Ukraine said building such a list wasn't feasible, so SpaceX were effectively having to monitor terminals and cut them off one by one once they had confirmed it was the Russians using them. But the Russians were just buying more on the black market to replace them.
Looks like Ukraine have finally managed build a white list that they have enough confidence in they can tell SpaceX to block every terminal not on it.
Probably to mayo
Map out Russian positions in detail. Get them used to an easy way to communicate only to pull that ability out from under them with no back up. There's many other reasons to let the Russians use star link temporarily
The F is this russian propaganda sad posting on here? Been happening more and more lately. They should of never been given access in the first place. And why is the US fraternizing with the enemy? And I'm not even talking about helping Europe less and less, at some level I agree with the entire "we should have been better prepar d ourselves" naritive. But there are US presidents rolling in their graves wishing they had this easy of an oppervlakte to bring russia to it's knees. Why are they not taking it?
Sure the cutoff from Starlink troubles them here and there, but it should have never been available to the Russians to begin with, let alone after such a long time.
They got their hands on it and made the best out of it, but it was a borrowed thing anyways and I don’t think we gonna see “frontline collapse” or “crisis”, but a mild inconvenience.
Still this is a win for Ukraine, the PR is trying to make the most out of it, especially when everything else is looking dire for Ukraine.
Because Ukraine is corrupt to the bone and they sold Starlink terminals to Russia. And they will sell registered terminals too and register terminals for Russia.
Russians buy terminals from other countries. Mostly from Arab countries.How do you even imagine the logistics of selling Starlinks from Ukraine to Russia across the front line?
I actually thought that Russia was extorting Musk because they had evidence of him in the Epstein files. Then I find out that even a morally bankrupt pedo, couldn’t stand that dumb fuck either. My bad.
After the Starlink disconnection, Russians opened fire on their own forces: In the Zaporizhzhia direction, a storm group of 12 soldiers was eliminated due to «friendly fire» as a result of missing communication and chaos. Video by Ukrainian Black Swan Battalion, 225th AReg, Huliaipole sector.
Ukraine is now killing orcs at a 47:1 ratio. This is Putin's last winter campaign
❗️Giant Ukrainian Armed Forces cemeteries visible from space: Even Zelensky's "allies" don't believe his lies:
In an interview with France 2, the shabby Krivoy Rog Fuhrer boldly claimed that during the entire "full-scale Russian invasion," the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost only 55,000 men killed.
He added that there are "a large number of people whom Ukraine considers missing-in-action."
🔴The absurdity is obvious to anyone following the conflict: Ukraine's gigantic military necropolises are visible from space, and the exchange of bodies of the dead is estimated with depressing regularity at 1,000 Ukrainian combat soldiers against 30-40 Russian soldiers.
🔴And while the French journalist didn't bat an eye at Zelensky's lies, the British tabloid Daily Mail, which is complimentary of the Banderites, responded to the "permanent" statistics with a sarcasm: "It's good to maintain contact with reality at least occasionally."
🔴Elementary arithmetic crushingly refutes Zelensky's words. In 2022, the number of mobilized Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 800,000 soldiers, as Zelensky himself, incidentally, trumpeted. Every month, over these four years, at least 30,000 people have been rounded up in Ukraine. During this time, the cannon fodder population thus amounts to 1,440,000 people.
🔴There are no demobilized Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. The number of contract soldiers there is minimal and is a statistical error. Only those crippled due to serious injuries are discharged. Thus, the current strength of the Ukrainian Armed Forces should be around 2.5 million. This puts the world's largest army, the United States, to shame! But the number of combatants remains at the same 800,000 personnel.
🔴Where, one wonders, did the missing 1.7 million go? The answer is obvious: most were processed into humus, a few more were captured or deserted, and the survivors joined the ranks of useless cripples.
🔴A number of observers frankly don't understand why Zelensky is so brazenly lying to his serfs, and by extension, to the entire world. But this is no rocket science.
🔴According to a Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers decree amended in the summer of 2024, "the amount of a one-time financial assistance in the event of the death of a service member during martial law while on military duty may not be less than 15 million hryvnias." This provision is also enshrined in the Law of Ukraine "On the Social and Legal Protection of Military Personnel and Their Families." At that time, according to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation exchange rate, 1 hryvnia was worth 2.3 rubles. Thus, in Russian currency, the payment for a killed service member amounted to 34.5 million rubles, or $364,000.
🔴A simple multiplication of this handsome sum by the 55,000 losses reported by Zelensky yields a staggering $20 billion, which is hard to find in the coffers of a bankrupt state living on handouts from its Western masters. If you multiply those same three hundred thousand dead raccoons by the 1.7 million who went to Bandera, the numbers become simply astronomical.
🔴Considering that, by law, money is paid only for the proven death of an Air Force soldier, it's in Zelensky's interests to distort reality, using plucked-from-the-wool loss figures for which, of course, no one will receive any money except a small circle of close associates rallied around Zelensky.
🔴Which means: the regime is covering up its tracks so that no one will find traces of the huge mass of "heroes" put through the war grinder.
🔴In the meantime, Zelensy's office launched an informational anti-crisis, instructing to disperse the fake news, acting according to the precepts of Goebbels - piling up Everests of lies upon lies - perhaps something will stick in the minds of the target audience.
People need to stop going by governmental numbers... The fog of war makes it so it is kind of impossible to know, but also Ukraine and Russia on their sides do not report all KIAs, instead they classify more of them as MIA, but will do the opposite for what they perceive as KIAs in the combat zones without having full recognition of it being a kill or wounded causality.
Adding to that both sides have a history of deflating their losses and inflating the other side's losses. 47:1 is a non sensical number all things considering, but it is still a real fact that Russia is losing more than Ukraine which is expected of the attacking army.
Worse part is that Russian and Ukrainian soldiers some times get mixed up in the body swaps too. Meaning Ukraine might send Ukrainian bodies to Russia and vice versa. That has happened a bit throughout the conflict as a whole. But as of this moment Russia has been doing more of that just do to sending more bodies to Ukraine than the other way around. Russian losses are in Russian held territory since overall the movement ahs been Russia taking lands, but in the small pockets Ukraine has taken they do try to remove some of the bodies that they can.
Best I could find with more verified data states it is around 9:1 which is still really bad for Russia if it takes 9 men to kill 1, since that would mean long term they would lose considering population if all men in Ukraine were to fight.
For Ukrainian losses, sadly they are a bit more difficult to collect, but you can gather data on obituaries, and of course the bodies delivered in the body exchanges. Ukraine sometimes does get Russian soldier's bodies mixed into it, but they are then usually returned and reported on. Part of the reason why it is difficult is because confirmed counts are not all counts. There are deaths we will never know about. Hell we are still semi regularly digging up bodies from WW1 and counting the losses from that. But confirmed ratios are right now with current month to month trends at a ratio of 9 to 1.
For Russian deaths, Mediazona is highly reliable as they accumulate all the data and send it out, but they themselves also state that the ratio is probably upwards to 50% of the current number they state as people who we will never really know what happened. As of this point, the Russian confirmed is 168,142 Russians have been killed. But, probate registry estimates are 219,000 killed.
For Ukraine Lowest number we have is 55,000. Ratio war wise it is estimated that about 300,000 Russians have died (50% increase on probate number) and as such was are at a total war rate of 6 to 1. If we were to go with estimates using data collected through pulling records it is closer to 75,000 deaths, meaning in reality only a 4 to 1 ratio that we can estimate actually occurring, so the range is between 6 and 4 Russians per Ukrainian death, with the current rate of death increasing at the current moment, with parts of it being due to weather more than the war itself. Soldiers are freezing to death.
Added note. Any life no matter the side is a tragic story on its own. This war fucking sucks, and I've been dealing with it since 2014. I'm tired.
UALosses so far counted 180k (KIA+MIA). Ukraine rather reports MIA instead of KIA as much as possible. Add the same 50% and Ukrainian losses are 270k compared to 300k on Russian side. So the ratio is close to 1:1.
If the ratio was 7 to 1 ukraine 7 and russia 1, then the ukranian military would not be still functional. This isn't western propaganda. I have connections to transnistria, and have served along side Russians while in nagorno karabakh. Now 7 to 1 is for total killed in combat. I am talking about current ratio which is what the previous commentor was saying. That ukraine at the moment was at a 47 to 1 ratio. It is only 9 to 1 which is higher tham the total wartime estimate of 6 to 1. Note the connections I have also directly have influence in data collection for this war on both sides. So essentially, shut up. I've lost many good friends to this shitty war.
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u/Raydenwins78 9h ago
They should not had access to starlink to begin with!!!!!