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A new "white list" from SpaceX is shutting off Russia's illicit access to Starlink's satellite internet across the front line.

At shortly before 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time on Feb. 5, Elon Musk retweeted a new guide from Ukraine's Digital Transformation Ministry for registering a Starlink terminal within UkraSubsequently, a series of alarmed Russian social media posts indicate that Starlink terminals were disconnecting en masse along the front.

Three Ukrainian commanders, speaking to the Kyiv Independent on the condition of anonymity, reported intercepting messages from Russian forces complaining about Starlink terminals failing in large numbers.

Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, a longtime commentator on electronic warfare more recently appointed as advisor to Defense Minister Mykhaylo Fedorov, said the "enemy at the front doesn't have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe."

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[–] john_t@piefed.ee 91 points 3 days ago (5 children)

He's only doing it now because his name got out on the Epstein emails. The russians lost their kompromat on him.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m surprised he doesn’t overtly support the Russians, like most of MAGA

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

Maybe all of DOGE was about finding Epstein files content, and failed.
And now that they have been released, Musk realises there is no kompromat on him so he can recover some PR points or something

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They embarrassed him many years ago, it's the whole reason SpaceX exists.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate for the uninformed?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Before SpaceX, back when Musk had his X.com/PayPal money, he tried to buy an ICBM from Russia with the purpose of modifying it to launch a mission to Mars*.

The last meeting they had about it, Russia basically laughed him out of the room after they'd already tried to fleece him. So he founded SpaceX to get there instead.

  • Mars mission was really just to move some plants and bacteria to Mars - within the space community, there are some that want to limit/prevent exploration of extraterrestrial bodies for sake of contamination, that our bacterial load might change the course of natural evolution on a planet. Musk wanted to 'pollute' Mars in order to make that argument no long viable.

Early SpaceX is pretty wild.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is an interesting point. It could be pure coincidence but we can't overlook the fact that Musk's actions noticeably changed from helping to hinder Ukraine's war efforts not too long after a phone call with Putin.

So now he's a pedo AND a traitor.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

Always the ones you most expect.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Good observation. Now, on top of that he might have privileged information about the imminent fall of the ruSS economy ... making him lose his horrible bet in favor the invaders.

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

It's hard to believe that they don't have much more than the public.

and only temporarily