Elon Musk, the company’s founder, was able to deliver Starlink equipment to Ukraine as promised. Users in the country will be able to access high-speed internet thanks to the hardware, which has been disrupting connections as a result of Russia’s military assault.
Despite the ongoing Russian offensive, Ukrainians now have access to Starlink Internet.
Ukraine has received a shipment of terminals for use with the Starlink satellite internet constellation. Spacex, the aerospace company founded and run by U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk, operates the network, which provides high-speed broadband internet to users all around the world.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister of digital development, hailed the arrival. “Here’s Starlink,” says the narrator. Thanks, @elonmusk,” the Kyiv official tweeted on Monday, alongside a photo of a truck loaded with satellite antennas and routers.
Fedorov took to Twitter on Saturday to request that the billionaire give Ukraine with Starlink stations. The call came following allegations in the media that the internet monitoring organisation Netblocks had detected “substantial delays in internet access” in the country since the Russian military invasion began on February 24.
“In Ukraine, the Starlink service is now operational. Within hours, Musk answered, “More terminals on the way.” Later, the Ukrainian minister announced that “Starlink terminals are coming to Ukraine!” and thanked Elon Musk and others for their assistance.
According to social media sources in Ukraine, Starlink equipment is already operational in the capital Kyiv. The internet connection’s peak speed has topped 200 Mbps at some time, according to a tweet by software and communications engineer Oleg Kutkov.
Success!
SpaceX Starlink is working in Kyiv, Ukraine!
The Dishy was placed just outside my window, even without adjustments.Thanks, @SpaceX team, for your support 🙂
cc @FedorovMykhailo pic.twitter.com/oX09RL5wBh
— Oleg Kutkov (@olegkutkov) February 28, 2022
Since the start of the Russian military offensive, Ukrainian leaders have made multiple appeals to the international community for assistance. The administration of the East European nation has begun taking donations in various cryptocurrencies to help fund its defence and other activities.
Russian soldiers have advanced in various directions, threatening to cut off important urban centres like as Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. Communication issues are anticipated to worsen, affecting a wide range of companies, including the crypto sector, which Ukraine has been attempting to regulate. The service is ideal for places with unstable or unavailable connectivity, according to Starlink’s website.
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