Some of the Starlink internet devices that had suffered outages have come back online in the past few days, restoring lines of communications in territory recently liberated from Russian occupation, say Ukrainian soldiers and officials.
The improvement was recorded hours after the Financial Times reported widespread outages during Ukrainian counteroffensives, two Ukrainian government officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The development was most prominent in the southern region of Kherson, where battles are the most intense, said one of the Ukrainian officials and soldiers on the ground.
Kyiv’s troops use the portable devices, which are made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to communicate in the battlefield where internet access has been cut off. The same Ukrainian officials said last week the outages occurred in the middle of counteroffensives in the south and east. Their account was confirmed by soldiers on the frontline and a donor of Starlink terminals.