Ukraine to Get Thousands More Starlink Antennas, Minister Says
- Influx comes as Russia strikes threaten to cut off internet
- Nation preparing aid stations to help people survive outages
A Starlink antenna in Izyum, Ukraine.
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Ukraine reached a deal with Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to receive thousands more Starlink antennas to help counter Russian air attacks, according to a top government official.
More than 10,000 of the devices, which provide internet service beamed down from satellites, will be sent to Ukraine in the coming months, said Mykhailo Fedorov, deputy prime minister and minister for digital transformation, in an interview in his office in downtown Kyiv.