MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The Starlink satellite communication system, being used by Ukraine’s military personnel, has collapsed, the leader of the movement We are together with Russia, Vladimir Rogov, said on Tuesday.

"The Starlink communication system in the post-Ukrainian space controlled by the Zelensky regime has been disabled, according to several sources. Tuesday’s missile strikes incapacitated a number of Starlink terminals. Ukraine’s General Staff is close to losing control of its forces," Rogov wrote on his Telegram channel.

There has been no official confirmation from Ukrainian sources yet.

On October 7, the Financial Times quoted Ukrainian officials as saying that Starlink began to malfunction in the zone of Russia's special military operation. "Catastrophic" outages were recorded in the Donbass, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions. The daily said the failures caused panic in the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian experts interviewed by the FT voiced the suspicion that the communication problems in these regions might have been due to a deliberate decision by the US company SpaceX, which launched Starlink, to restrict access on the Russia-controlled territory. The disruptions are indicative of a lack of cooperation between Ukraine's military leadership and SpaceX, the analysts said.

On February 27, the founder and owner of SpaceX, Elon Musk, announced that he had opened access to his Starlink global satellite communication system in Ukraine. In March, US media reported that the Ukrainian army was using the Starlink satellites for strikes against Russian troops, as there were no alternative communication channels. On October 3, Musk said that SpaceX had spent $80 million to launch and maintain Starlink in Ukraine.