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Musk could have done that a long time ago. Instead he was blocking Ukraine's.
Fuck that traitor.
He's only doing it now because his name got out on the Epstein emails. The russians lost their kompromat on him.
Good observation. Now, on top of that he might have privileged information about the imminent fall of the ruSS economy ... making him lose his horrible bet in favor the invaders.
I’m surprised he doesn’t overtly support the Russians, like most of MAGA
It's hard to believe that they don't have much more than the public.
It is my impression that deep strike drones previously flew pre-programmed (attempting to locate the target using satnav, with some fancy versions using ground scanning lidar or machine vision).
The problem of deep strike drones becoming remote-controlled seems recent, and Ukraine has been experiencing an increasing frequency of those since autumn. They've been attacking moving targets. One recently hit a locomotive moving on a railway, the other hit a bus full of miners.
I don't know the background - was Starlink responsive or unresponsive, or did Ukrainians wait for a statistical curve of adoption to present itself and become certain, before asking Starlink to pull the rug.
What is clear that Ukraine has worked out a way of registering and whitelisting their own Starlink terminals, and hasn't yet fully completed the process, so they're in a hurry too. Russians have been observed cursing Musk not less profusely than you, but considerably more. In several places, offensive operations have stopped because units relied on Starlink only.
Next step: war of the mesh networks. Serhii Beskrestnov (radio amateur and now adviser to the Ukrainian defense ministry) has already pointed out that Russian drones are increasingly often providing connectivity to those that fly before them (expensive Chinese frequency hopping mesh radios have been recovered). While this dulls the edge of the swarm (the swarm has to be gradual, air defense will get time to reload) it requires Ukrainians to rework their jamming efforts and try to shoot down the relay nodes (which may be identifiable using signals intelligence). And of course, ideally, someone should talk to the Chinese companies, maybe offering to buy all the fancy mesh radios they make.
“Illicit” is definitely the wrong word.