“Starlink is once again down across the entire front line,” Ukraine’s top drone warfare commander, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, wrote<\/a> on Telegram.<\/p>\n Downdetector, a platform that tracks service outages, reported<\/a> tens of thousands of user complaints worldwide. The company said it was investigating the cause.<\/p>\n Nearly an hour later, Brovdi reported<\/a> that connectivity was beginning to “gradually restore,” though Starlink has not officially confirmed a full recovery. Downdetector also shows a decline in outage reports.<\/p>\n This marks the second<\/a> major Starlink outage in recent months.<\/p>\n The stakes are high for Ukraine, as Starlink<\/a> has replaced much of the country’s destroyed communications infrastructure and supports both civilian and military connectivity.<\/p>\n Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Kyiv has received over 50,000 Starlink terminals, with Poland<\/a> providing nearly 30,000, the largest contribution by any single country.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s reliance on Starlink has previously been complicated by tensions with Musk. <\/p>\n Reuters reported<\/a> in July 2023 that the billionaire ordered a temporary deactivation of satellite coverage over Kherson Oblast during a Ukrainian counteroffensive<\/a> in 2022, sparking concerns about the vulnerability of critical systems to private decision-making.<\/p>\n