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Starlink devices arrived in Ukraine Monday evening after Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked tech mogul Elon Musk for satellite internet.
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“Please,” Elon Musk replied via Twitter after Ukraine’s Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanked him.
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With the supplied Starlink end devices, the Internet is to be restored in Ukraine.
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This in regions where it had failed.
A delivery of terminals for the satellite Internet service Starlink from the US entrepreneur Elon Musk has arrived in Ukraine. «Starlink – here. Thank you,” Ukraine’s Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote to Musk on Twitter on Monday. “Please,” replied the founder of space company SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla via the same platform. Fedorov had asked Musk for support in the face of the Russian attack via Twitter on Saturday.
Provide Internet in areas where access has been disrupted
Starlink operates a network of more than 2,000 satellites designed to provide Internet access in areas not connected to the global network by cable. The Starlink devices could help provide internet in areas where access has been cut due to President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Russia’s neighboring country last Thursday.
According to the country’s IT security authority, Ukraine has been regularly hit by cyber attacks by Russian hackers for a week, which has fueled fears about the telecommunications networks.
(AFP / sys)