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russian forces located and destroyed 60+ ukrainian starlink terminals in the kharkov region during june using fpv drones, reportedly finding them via poor camouflage, disrupting frontline troop communications. separately a july 5 strike hit two electrical substations in occupied crimea, where year-over-year satellite imagery shows persistent decline in nighttime lighting. physical targeting of satellite-comms hardware is a deliberate move against the space-linked layer of the war.

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russia has operationally deployed a trailer-mounted electronic warfare system called volna-kupol-garant that uses satellite dishes to jam starlink communications used to guide ukrainian drone strikes, protecting approximately 20 square kilometers of territory. this is the first publicly disclosed operational anti-satellite jamming system specifically targeting the starlink asset class. starlink-guided drones have been a structurally important element of ukrainian offensive capability, and a purpose-built countermeasure reaching the field marks a qualitative shift in that domain. 93%
ukraine conducted its second drone strike in ten days on russia's dubna space communications center, which supports satellite-based battlefield communications. the first strike was june 22; the second june 30. repeated targeting of the same facility signals a deliberate campaign to degrade military satellite communications infrastructure rather than one-off interdiction, extending ukraine's long-range campaign from logistics into the command-and-control layer. 92%
the starlink satellite network came under two unrelated pressures in the same cycle: russian forces widely resumed electronic-warfare jamming against it in ukraine, and a chinese zhuque-2e rocket upper stage broke apart in low orbit near the constellation and the international space station, with u.s. space force folding the debris into collision tracking. simultaneous deliberate interference and physical orbital risk on a single commercial network is notable. 90%
russia deployed a new electronic warfare system, volna kupol garant, designed to disrupt starlink by targeting the satellites themselves rather than ground terminals. at the same time a firm called endeavor optical networks is pitching laser satellite links for intercontinental data transfer explicitly as an alternative to undersea cables after severings in the red sea, baltic and taiwan strait. pressure is moving upward: the contested layer is shifting from seabed to orbit. 90%
documents point to a joint russian-chinese effort to build weapons specifically aimed at disabling or destroying the starlink satellite network via malware and jamming, with russia trading battlefield experience for chinese technology. separately, a russia- and china-linked shadow fleet is suspected of damaging subsea cables using ais blackouts and false flags. both target the physical backbone of global connectivity. 89%
ukraine publicly claimed a june 22 strike critically damaged russia's vladimir space communications center near gus-khrustalny, and a june 24 strike halted production at the orenburg gas processing plant, damaging four processing units. these represent deep strikes into russian interior infrastructure — a space communications facility and a major energy processing node — extending the conflict's physical reach well beyond the conventional front line. 89%

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