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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
@vnikolov@ieji.de  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

No Starlink for Moscow's military drones.
Elon Musk has done a good thing, as far as I can tell.
Credit must be given where credit is due.

From the article:

«The Institute for the Study of War warned in mid-January that since Russia had begun equipping the cheap kamikaze Molniya-2 drones with Starlink, their battlefield efficiency had increased "dramatically".

While neither Fedorov nor Musk elaborated on what the response had been, the defence ministry's official website ArmiyaInform reported that SpaceX had introduced a speed limit of 75 [km/h or about 45 miles/hour] on Starlink terminals moving over Ukraine.»

NB age and appointments:

«The 35-year-old former digital transformation minister [Mykhailo Fedorov] was appointed to head the ministry of defence by President Volodymyr Zelensky last month.»

BBC article:
Ukraine war: Elon Musk praised after restricting Russian Starlink use
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly94qe3yr0o>

#ElonMusk
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Ukraine war: Elon Musk praised after restricting Russian Starlink use

Starlink-enabled drones have been linked to a number of recent deadly attacks by Russia on Ukraine.
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