Overview
- Defense ministry adviser Sergey Beskrestnov said users in Ukraine are seeing initial countermeasures and stressed the limits are temporary emergency steps.
- Beskrestnov urged the collection of data on all SpaceX service users within the Ukrainian Armed Forces to manage access.
- Elon Musk said SpaceX has taken steps to prevent unsanctioned Russian use of the network and wrote that these measures seem to have worked.
- Ukraine’s digital chief Mykhailo Fedorov thanked Musk and said officials are working with SpaceX on additional steps to stop Russian frontline use.
- Analysts have documented growing Russian reliance on the system for drone operations, and media reports describe possible speed-based shutoffs and a military registry of exempt terminals, which have not been confirmed by SpaceX.