Ukrainian media report that soldiers are experiencing problems using the Western-supplied communication terminals on the battlefield
Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service, actively used by Ukrainian troops, suffered a global outage on Thursday.
The network went down at around 3:13pm ET (7:13pm GMT), Doug Madory, an internet analyst at the firm Kentik, told Reuters.
Musk apologized on his platform X, promising to fix the issue quickly. "Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn't happen again," he wrote Thursday evening.
"Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution," the company said in a brief statement.
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