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Starlink and Why Russia’s War Just Slowed Overnight

The painful lesson of fighting on infrastructure you don’t own

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Wes O'Donnell
Feb 10, 2026
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My personal photo of a Starlink flight over my house

There’s a moment early in this war most people forgot about. A strange little scene in September 2022, when an uncrewed Ukrainian sea drone washed ashore in occupied Crimea like a message in a bottle.

At the time, analysts scrambled to explain it: A navigation error? A battery failure? A classified syst…

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