The Black Market That Delivers Elon Musk’s Starlinks to U.S. Foes
Posted on AllSides April 9th, 2024
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ILLUSTRATION: DAVE COLE/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, AP (2), GETTY IMAGES, REUTERS
A salesman at Moscow-based online retailer shopozz.ru has supplemented his usual business of peddling vacuum cleaners and dashboard phone mounts by selling dozens of Starlink internet terminals that wound up with Russians on the front lines in Ukraine.
Although Russia has banned the use of Starlink, the satellite-internet service developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, middlemen have proliferated in recent months to buy the user terminals and ship them to Russian forces. That has eroded a battlefield advantage once enjoyed by Ukrainian forces, which also rely on the cutting-edge devices.
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