“The strategic impact is, it totally destroyed Putin’s information campaign,” Brig. Gen. Steve Butow told Politico. “He never, to this day, has been able to silence Zelensky.”
Starlink has been of great benefit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It allowed him to stay in touch with the West. And he has been in “virtual” attendance at the UN, NATO and the EU.
He has also been in close strategic communications with the US, UK, France and other countries. And he is communicating directly with his people on a near-daily basis despite heavy Russian bombardment of infrastructure.
Ukrainian soldiers use the SpaceX internet system to coordinate military action. Starlink has also been vital to aid the Ukrainian military using drones to target and destroy Russian tanks.
It keeps soldiers connected to family. The war has created millions of Ukraine refugees that need to stay connected to those unable to flee.
“We’ve got more than 11,000 Starlink stations and they help us in our everyday fight on all the fronts,” Fedorov claimed in an interview. “We’re ready, even if there is no light, no fixed internet, through generators using Starlink, to renew any connection in Ukraine.”
