Z-propagandists Write About The Huge Losses Of The Russian Occupiers

• 12.03.2026, 17:05

Because of the Starlink outage.

After Starlink terminals used by the Russian military in the occupied territories of Ukraine were shut down, Internet traffic within the country dropped sharply by about 75%. A strong drop was recorded on February 4, after which the figure remained at only 25-30% of the previous volume. This indicates that the Russian military failed to completely bypass the restrictions imposed by SpaceX, writes "Dialog".

With the communication problems, the pace of the Russian army's offensive has slowed down, and in some parts of the front, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to advance. In addition, a sharp increase in losses among Russian communications specialists is reported.

The decrease in traffic was reported by the head of the analytical department of Kentik Doug Madori. These data are also confirmed by Cloudflare statistics. On the same day, Russian military bloggers began complaining en masse about communication outages. Ukrainian military also noted problems, but only a fraction of users.

After the Starlink outage, Russian units had to lay additional communication lines manually. According to VGTRK employee Andrei Medvedev, in units where terminals stopped working, there was an increase in the number of dead communicators who were targeted by Ukrainian drones.

Ukraine previously sought SpaceX to block terminals that reached the Russian military via third countries. The company then began disabling devices that were not registered with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. According to sources, the loss of access to Starlink even forced Russian forces to temporarily suspend assault operations