Starlink Down Again: Ukraine Reports New Frontline Outage as US Envoys Meet Putin in Moscow

Ukraine's military has reported a fresh disruption to its Starlink satellite communications, according to BBC News, with the outage affecting connectivity used by Ukrainian forces. The reported disruption comes as US envoys meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks.

The Starlink network, operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has been a critical communications backbone for Ukraine's military since the early stages of Russia's full-scale invasion, supporting command links and drone operations. Repeated outages have raised concerns in Kyiv about dependence on a privately controlled system. The dispatch did not specify the scale or duration of the latest disruption, and the cause was not immediately confirmed.

The timing places the connectivity issue alongside a parallel diplomatic track: later on Thursday, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are scheduled to travel to Dublin to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. The convergence of battlefield communications problems and high-level US shuttle diplomacy is likely to sharpen questions in Kyiv and among allies about the reliability of Starlink and the direction of negotiations. Further details on the outage and the outcome of the meetings were not immediately available.