Russian banks face service outages amid internet crackdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/gulu171HmA
Karma. This is gonna worry the masses, mabey there will be widespread occurrences of bank runs and even more economic malaise.
Russia is building its own Starlink system
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/fl7WVWD2Zt
But all is not lost. Russia also isn’t adding to this system at all fast pace. The system itself won’t be like Starlink, but perhaps a worse version of that even when they have more satellites in place. They won’t be able run a battlefield management system for another year or two because internet on that scale won’t be available . Also, you would think that Ukrainian intelligence will be able to find the rockets that are meant for the launch and use drones against them.
In the meantime, Russia will cont to incur heavy losses.
| shavenferret said: Russia is building its own Starlink system |
I would presume try would try to launch them at a place out of range of Ukrainian attacks, but obviously Ukraine will work on extending their range. Also they will likely try to target areas where the rockets and satellites are being assembled.
But does Russia even have the resources spare to devote to something like that?
SecondWar said:
I would presume try would try to launch them at a place out of range of Ukrainian attacks, but obviously Ukraine will work on extending their range. Also they will likely try to target areas where the rockets and satellites are being assembled. But does Russia even have the resources spare to devote to something like that? |
Russia launches their rockets at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in central Kazakhstan and the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast in Russia's far east. Both launch sites are very, vary far outside Ukraine's strike capabilities unfortunately.
As for whether they have the resources for this, I would say probably not. What makes Starlink and all recent efforts at space industrialization and large scale space infrastructure build out possible is reusable rockets like Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and the recently introduced New Glenn.
But while the West has those mentioned plus Starship, Neutron, and others coming online in the relative near future, Russia only has single use medium and heavy lift rockets. They're good at building them at a reasonable price, but the efficiency gains and savingd from reusability cannot be replicated with single use rockets at medium lift and larger.
So this is likely to be an exceedingly expensive and potentially wasted effort altogether.
Last edited by Nuvendil - on 17 April 2026
SecondWar said:
I would presume try would try to launch them at a place out of range of Ukrainian attacks, but obviously Ukraine will work on extending their range. Also they will likely try to target areas where the rockets and satellites are being assembled. But does Russia even have the resources spare to devote to something like that? |
Ukraine has had drone attacks deep within Russia before. They have put them in cargo trailers and just paid people to drive them to a certain location. The drones popped out and wrecked havoc. London see why the same thing can’t happen again.
Nuvendil said:
Russia launches their rockets at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in central Kazakhstan and the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast in Russia's far east. Both launch sites are very, vary far outside Ukraine's strike capabilities unfortunately. As for whether they have the resources for this, I would say probably not. What makes Starlink and all recent efforts at space industrialization and large scale space infrastructure build out possible is reusable rockets like Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and the recently introduced New Glenn. But while the West has those mentioned plus Starship, Neutron, and others coming online in the relative near future, Russia only has single use medium and heavy lift rockets. They're good at building them at a reasonable price, but the efficiency gains and savingd from reusability cannot be replicated with single use rockets at medium lift and larger. So this is likely to be an exceedingly expensive and potentially wasted effort altogether. |
To add to this, Ukraine can hardly attack Baikonur as it's in Kazakhstan.
About the news - YAWN - that's ultra-old news. As in, Russia, and before that the Soviet Union, had a fleet of satellites for this already; they're called Strela, and they are in their 3M version currently, which started in 2005, so not exactly super modern. For reference, the first Strela generation is from 1964...
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Hmmm, so the cia is conducting an operation to foil Russian intel and digital operations against the US. Apparently unlike Trump, not all Americans want to be friends with Russia.
https://youtu.be/ywr9i-pmOtk?si=DNBPULpWvVMPcCZI
That’s a lot of artillery destroyed. Keep it coming!
The orcs are complaining that Ukraine is using graphite bombs to disrupt the electrical grid.
This will cause destruction of equipment without hurting civilians unless someone is next to the graphite bomb when it is detonated.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/06/ukraine-may-be-using-new-weapon-that-disables-infrastructure-without-explosions/
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