The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting story about the technological support of the western companies to Ukraine in this time of war with Russia.
The story was titled “Ukraine Leans on Elon Musk’s Starlink in Fight Against Russia”
The authors of the story, Yaroslav Trofimov , Micah Maidenberg and Drew FitzGerald, wrote “SpaceX’s satellite internet service has kept front-line troops connected where regular cell networks failed, officials say”
And after that, they explain “Along much of the Ukraine-Russia front line, commercial cell phone towers providing voice and internet service have been knocked out by power outages, Russian shells and jamming.”
But Elon Musk’s Starlink service, which provides internet connectivity using a swarm of satellites, is up and running here. Mr. Musk has sent thousands of kits into Ukraine, turning the country into a high-profile testing ground for the service, which he is trying to sell in other countries around the world.
Ukrainian officials and officers at headquarters and in the field credit Starlink with keeping their forces connected.
“Without Starlink, we would have been losing the war already,” said one platoon commander on the Izyum front, where Russian forces are trying to push south to capture the Donbas region.”
In the blog section of the WSJ Online I posted the following comment:
“Without the technology and intelligence of Western leaders, Ukraine would have fallen into Russian hands on the first day of the war.”
A group of members of the WSJ Blog Community approved my comment with LIKED.
SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle
