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Russia’s forces are searching for alternatives to Starlink after SpaceX’s whitelist cut off their unauthorized access along the entire front line, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reported. HUR shared what it described as intercepted Russian radio communications in which soldiers complained about the quality of Gazprom satellite terminals — one of the few domestic alternatives available.
With the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion days away, both armies had grown deeply dependent on Starlink for front-line communications and drone operations. Russia exploited this by mounting illicitly obtained terminals on strike drones to hit targets deep in Ukraine’s rear — until SpaceX’s February whitelist shut down unauthorized access, disrupting Russian command and control across the front line.
HUR said it has been recording Starlink disconnections across Russian-held positions along the entire line of contact. According to the intelligence agency, Russian troops turned to terminals made by Gazprom Space Systems as a substitute.
In one of the alleged intercepts, a Russian soldier described the Gazprom terminal bluntly: "As far as I know, this Gazprom terminal is ass." Another mentioned a neighboring unit’s equipment: "The neighbors have a Gazprom terminal, it works on Gazproms, over." A third soldier complained that a large airborne unit’s Gazprom terminal "couldn’t handle the video relay" to command posts.
HUR said the Gazprom terminals cannot compete with Western technology in connection quality and are practically unusable in combat conditions.
Gazprom Space Systems operates the Yamal satellite communication system — a network of five geostationary spacecraft: Yamal-202, Yamal-300K, Yamal-401, Yamal-402, and Yamal-601.
According to HUR, this is insufficient to fully cover the front line, as most of the Yamal group’s satellite capacity serves civilian subscribers inside Russia. GSS has been under international sanctions since 23 February 2024.
Gazprom is Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, sanctioned by the EU and G7 nations over Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. HUR says that the Starlink shutdown has already caused serious problems with unit coordination, logistics, and the use of unmanned systems of various types — from ground-based to aerial.
On 1 February, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announced that unverified Starlink terminals would be disconnected. Registration instructions appeared the next day, followed by whitelists of verified terminals.
The stoppage of Starlink services among the occupiers has already caused serious problems with unit coordination, logistics, and the operation of unmanned systems of various types – from ground to aerial." The commander of a Ukrainian unmanned systems brigade told that Russian forces will likely spend about six months searching for an alternative to Starlink. Russian forces, particularly Rubikon, relied on Starlink terminals to extend drone range and generate effects of battlefield air interdiction — striking further into the Ukrainian rear well behind the contact line. Especially, Russia’s Rubikon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies had been using Starlink terminals to extend the range of its drones and strike targets deep behind Ukraine’s front lines. The unit regularly published footage on its Telegram channel, tagging specific frontline and rear settlements hit by its strikes. That changed abruptly after 4 February after SpaceX blocked unregistered Starlink terminals in Ukraine on 1 February, ISW says.
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