Ukraine’s “Raid” Regiment destroys Russian Starlink alternative
Russia relies on alternative networks after losing Starlink access.
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Russia building satellite network to replace Starlink, launches first 16 into orbit
Large-scale deployment still years away, but Russia has all it needs to make it happen
Latvia convicted one member of a Starlink supply network to Russia — three others in the same network await trial
Latvia's State Security Service investigation found the group ordered the equipment online and shipped it illegally into Russia, where it was sold to people connected to the Russian armed forces
Russian military police are checking soldiers’ phones for Telegram — ISW says this deepens Russia’s command and control crisis
Some units are enforcing Telegram deletions while others ignore the orders.
Russia’s Starlink replacement is giving away its positions — Ukrainian brigade tracks drone pilots by their Wi-Fi antennas
Ukraine's 59th Brigade soldier says Russia's Wi-Fi alternatives require clear line-of-sight placement, making every antenna a marker for a drone operator position or EW station.
Oleksandrivka direction sees breakthrough—Russia loses coordination as Ukrainian paratroopers exploit chaos
Kyiv units cut Russian supply lines while securing nine key settlements.
Russia runs out of soldiers in Kherson Oblast, so it hands rifles to nurses – partisans
When soldiers run out, doctors get guns. That’s what’s happening on Russia’s Kherson front, as Ukrainian drone strikes drive casualties up.
ISW: Battlefield realities disprove Russia’s claim that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable
The fifth year of the invasion begins with Ukrainian forces making their most significant gains since the Kursk incursion while Russia faces mounting setbacks.
Russia’s army hasn’t grown in six months. Ukraine is making it pay.
Troop numbers flatlined at 711,000 even as Moscow adapted to cut casualties. Now Ukraine is counterattacking where Russia can't reinforce.
Almost all Russian coordination relied on illicit Starlink: Ukraine turns terminals outage into mutiple front-line victories
Satellite disruption caused temporary Russia's disorganization, allowing Kyiv’s defenders to push Russians back from fortified positions and disrupt planned offensives.
“It’s ass”: Ukraine’s intelligence intercepts Russian troops struggling with Gazprom terminals after Starlink shutdown
The replacement satellite system runs on just five geostationary satellites whose capacity is mostly tied up serving civilian subscribers inside Russia — leaving front-line units without stable video feeds or reliable drone links.
Russia spent two months advancing in Zaporizhzhia Oblast — Ukraine clawed back up to 9.5 km in a week
Counterattacks pushed Russian forces from over a dozen settlements and disrupted the timeline for a hypothetical Orikhiv-Zaporizhzhia operation, though Mashovets cautions Ukraine lacks the forces for anything beyond tactical stabilization.
SpaceX’s Starlink block is already disrupting Russia’s elite drone unit as predicted, ISW says
Ukraine and SpaceX's efforts to block unauthorized Starlink terminals in Ukraine is already disrupting Russia's elite Rubikon Center…
Russians paid crypto to restore Starlink. Ukrainian hackers took the money – and the data
Fake registration channels collected data on Russian units, contacts, and terminal locations.
Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl
Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.
Ukraine is counterattacking across nine vectors. The goal isn’t to advance
With the Russian cut off from Starlink, the Ukrainians have the edge for now. Instead of attempting a risky counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops in the southeast are fighting to firm up their defenses.
Russia blackmails families of Ukrainian POWs into registering Starlink terminals for its military, Kyiv says
Registration requires identity verification, making anyone who complies easily traceable.
Russia likely invented a Ukrainian “counteroffensive” near Zaporizhzhia to cover up its own fake advance reports, ISW says
The think tank assessed that Russian forces overstated their gains near Oleksandrivka and Huliaipole and are now using claims of Ukrainian counterattacks to walk back positions they never actually held.
Ukraine counterattacks as Musk’s Starlink crackdown grounds Russian drones
Russia just lost Starlink access. Now Ukraine has an opportunity to retake lost territory.
Russian military promises $240 to Ukrainians who register Starlink terminals
Ukrainians who participate in Russian schemes to illegally register Starlink terminals face 15 years to life imprisonment, warns Ukraine's defense technology advisor