Ukraine government, SpaceX trade war stories on maintaining Starlink in a conflict zone

by Peter B. de Selding

LUXEMBOURG — Four years after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s use of SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband for fixed and mobile applications has been a story of adaptation to adversity for both the front-line Ukrainians and for SpaceX, sometimes with surprisingly good results.

Addressing the GovSatCom 2026 conference here Feb. 26, Georgii Dubynskyi, advisor to the president of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences for Ukraine’s security and defense forces and former Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, repeatedly said Starlink has been “a game-changer, a key . . .

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