How reliant is Ukraine on the US-controlled Starlink internet service?

DW18 October 2026, 08:58 UTCUkraine

Kyiv keeps issuing warnings that the satellite internet system Starlink is being restricted in Ukraine. How dependent is the country on the system, and what would happen if it went down?

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