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A worker at the Kronstadt UAV production plant in Dubna.

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The US has until 18 October to choose its Russia sanctions targets—if any. Kyiv’s wish list leads with the firms feeding Russia’s Starlink clone

At the top: Russian firms making parts for Moscow's Starlink rival, still untouched by US sanctions.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Employees of Russian company Bureau 1440 work on a Rassvet communications satellite.

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The EU sanctioned Russia’s Starlink rival but not the company that builds it. Experts call that the gap that matters

Ukraine can jam Russian drones into drifting off course—a satellite relay overhead would let them fly straight through the jamming and strike.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Video still from Bureau 1440's recent launch of 16 Rassvet satellites into low earth orbit

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Hybrid War

For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t

Sanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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A bottle of flammable liquid in Poland, a nuclear option on a Russian wish-list—the hunt for Starlink widens

Strip Starlink from Ukraine and its army goes blind—the calculation driving a Russian proposal to knock the satellite network out by any means available.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Three gray, triangular-wing drones sit on camouflage netting in a grassy field.

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ISW connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, a Starlink fire in Poland, and a Berlin airport shutdown into one Russian pattern

The institute connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, arson at a Polish Starlink station, and a Berlin airport shutdown into a single pattern of Russian pressure on European defense infrastructure.

byYuri Zoria

M1117 in service with Ukraine’s 425th Assault Battalion “Skala,” 2024

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Old American armor, new Ukrainian brain: Skelya regiment nears completion of M1117 unmanned conversion

The regiment's Innovation Center is finishing a project to remotely control an armored vehicle based on a chassis originally designed during the Vietnam War era.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Ukrainian soldiers. Source: The Third Separate Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces

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From HQ to the zero line: Ukraine’s Hrafit system answers one important question on an ordinary phone in a trench and on the road

Built by military programmers, Hrafit fuses radio-intelligence and surveillance into one picture.

byOlena Mukhina

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Russia’s answer to Starlink was written off as a failure—its satellites are still climbing

Forty-six days after their 19 July launch, the new craft sit at a median 365 km—higher than Russia's already-working first batch was at the same age.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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Russia’s Starlink rival falters as latest satellite batch stalls in low orbit, ISW says

None of the 16 spacecraft launched in July reached the 550-kilometer benchmark, while two may reenter the atmosphere and be lost.

byDaniel Thomas

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Ukrainian ground-robot maker has moved into air: Ratel’s first strike drone flies 30 kilometers on Starlink link

The Ratel K1 carries two kilograms, the maker says.

byOlena Mukhina

ukraine says hit iskander launcher near border—part dedicated hunt russia’s ballistic launch sites · post russian missile under ukrainian drone attack taganrog russia 30 2026 1st separate center unmanned systems

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Ukraine says it hit an Iskander launcher near the border—part of a dedicated hunt for Russia’s ballistic launch sites

The tactic gives Kyiv another way to reduce the missile threat when its stocks of anti-ballistic interceptors are low, Zelenskyy says.

byYuri Zoria

kyiv asking musk let strike inside russia its best line gone · post elon 2026 world economic forum / ciaran mccrickard wef ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Kyiv is asking Musk to let it strike inside Russia. Its best line to Musk is gone

Running low on Patriot interceptors, Kyiv wants to hunt the launchers up to 200 km inside Russia—but only Musk can switch the drones on.

byZoriana Katola

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“Faster than originally planned”: Russia wants 292 Starlink-rival satellites by 2027

The Rassvet network already offers brief connections as satellites cross Ukraine. Kyiv is discussing countermeasures.

byDaniel Thomas

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Ukraine’s security service breaks up two schemes registering Starlink terminals for Russia

The SBU says it detained three suspects in Dnipro and Zhytomyr and blocked every device the two operations had signed up.

byZoriana Katola

third one down ukraine keeps destroying russia's $18 million starlink jammers · post satellite images russian volna kupol garant starlink-jamming site gelendzhik krasnodar krai russia 2 (left) 7 2026 (right)

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Third one down: Ukraine keeps destroying Russia’s $1.8 million Starlink jammers

Satellite imagery places the latest confirmed hit at an FSB border base in Gelendzhik on Russia’s Black Sea coast.

byYuri Zoria

Ukraine's Security Service says it detained a suspected Russian agent accused of activating more than 1,000 Starlink terminals for Russian forces. Photo: SBU

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Alleged Russian agent arrested in Dnipro, accused of activating 1,000+ Starlink communications terminals to support Russian forces

The SBU says a suspect recruited by Russian intelligence used fake identities to activate more than 1,000 Starlink satellite terminals before authorities blocked the network.

byBenjamin Murdoch

SBU officers detained two suspects accused of illegally registering 76 Starlink satellite internet terminals for Russian forces, according to Ukraine's Security Service. Photo: SBU

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Ukraine arrests two alleged Russian agents in Kyiv accused of activating Starlink terminals to support Russian missile and drone strikes

According to the SBU, the suspects registered dozens of Starlink terminals that Russian intelligence planned to use for missile and drone attacks and to detect Ukraine's electronic warfare defenses.

byBenjamin Murdoch

russia's ex-space chief calls systematic zeroing out starlink satellite constellation · post russian senator former roscosmos head dmitry rogozin moscow times alco ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Russia’s ex-space chief calls for “systematic zeroing out” of the Starlink satellite constellation

Senator Dmitry Rogozin claims cutting Ukraine off from SpaceX's network would end the war within two to three weeks — and that Russia knows several ways to do it.

byYuri Zoria

5 minute read

Military tech

Ukraine’s newest drones don’t need Starlink. Russia spends $1.5 million to jam it anyway.

Onboard AI lets the newest drones find their own targets—nothing for a jammer to break.

byDavid Axe

Russian Volna Kupol Garant system, meant to jam Starlink signals in a 20-kilometer area, shortly before being struck by a Ukrainian attack drone. (Video Still: 422nd Separate Unmanned Systems Battalion

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Military tech

Russians deploy massive $1.5M Starlink jammers, Ukrainians are blowing them up

Bulky, powerful, flammable

byIgor Kossov

Starlink

The US has until 18 October to choose its Russia sanctions targets—if any. Kyiv’s wish list leads with the firms feeding Russia’s Starlink clone

The EU sanctioned Russia’s Starlink rival but not the company that builds it. Experts call that the gap that matters

For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t

A bottle of flammable liquid in Poland, a nuclear option on a Russian wish-list—the hunt for Starlink widens

ISW connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, a Starlink fire in Poland, and a Berlin airport shutdown into one Russian pattern

Old American armor, new Ukrainian brain: Skelya regiment nears completion of M1117 unmanned conversion

From HQ to the zero line: Ukraine’s Hrafit system answers one important question on an ordinary phone in a trench and on the road

Russia’s answer to Starlink was written off as a failure—its satellites are still climbing

Russia’s Starlink rival falters as latest satellite batch stalls in low orbit, ISW says

Ukrainian ground-robot maker has moved into air: Ratel’s first strike drone flies 30 kilometers on Starlink link

Ukraine says it hit an Iskander launcher near the border—part of a dedicated hunt for Russia’s ballistic launch sites

Kyiv is asking Musk to let it strike inside Russia. Its best line to Musk is gone

“Faster than originally planned”: Russia wants 292 Starlink-rival satellites by 2027

Ukraine’s security service breaks up two schemes registering Starlink terminals for Russia

Third one down: Ukraine keeps destroying Russia’s $1.8 million Starlink jammers

Alleged Russian agent arrested in Dnipro, accused of activating 1,000+ Starlink communications terminals to support Russian forces

Ukraine arrests two alleged Russian agents in Kyiv accused of activating Starlink terminals to support Russian missile and drone strikes

Russia’s ex-space chief calls for “systematic zeroing out” of the Starlink satellite constellation

Ukraine’s newest drones don’t need Starlink. Russia spends $1.5 million to jam it anyway.

Russians deploy massive $1.5M Starlink jammers, Ukrainians are blowing them up

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