A shipment of Starlink satellite dishes has arrived in Ukraine a day after country’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov asked SpaceX’s founder and CEO Elon Musk for help.
“Starlink — here. Thanks, @elonmusk,” Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted on February 28.
“You are most welcome,” Musk tweeted back.
However, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab project has warned that the terminals could become Russian targets.
“But remember: if #Putin controls the air above #Ukraine, users' uplink transmissions become beacons... for airstrikes,” he said.
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access coverage to most of the Earth. The constellation has grown to over 1,700 satellites through 2021.
Cybersecurity Help’s statement on the critical situation in Ukraine
On February 24, people in many cities and towns across Ukraine woke up to the sounds of explosions and artillery fire, as the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of the country. Such actions are unacceptable, political ambitions of any man aren’t worth of blood, tears, and destruction of millions of lives. We give our full support to the Ukrainian people in these hard times. No more war!