Darths Pumpkin and Melon have hatched a new cunning plan; Darth Turnip humbly refuses to claim any credit:
Ukrainian soldiers in combat have suddenly had their access to Starlink satellite internet terminals restricted as the Trump administration has increased pressure on Ukraine to halt long-range strikes on Russia’s oil industry immediately.
The terminals, which are distributed and managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are a key component of Ukraine’s military operations and the sudden restrictions on the terminals travelling at high speeds on Tuesday evening led to the failure of several combat missions, said an adviser on military technology to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The sudden outage came as Russia launched ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from the US for a second night. For years, the US has provided Ukraine with intelligence when strikes were about to take place.
It is as yet unclear whether they're returning the subscription fees, or whether Ukraine will have to sue them first. SpaceX, now subject to public reporting requirements, doesn't appear to have filed a form 8-K disclosure with SEC yet, either, but then again, they theoretically have four business days to do it.