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    A Russian senator has demanded the destruction of the Starlink satellite constellation, claiming its loss would allow Russia to win the war in Ukraine within weeks, The Moscow Times reported. The call landed as a joint European investigation revealed that Russia and China have worked on anti-Starlink weapons for three years without producing a solution.  Ukraine's access to Starlink gives it a significant advantage over Russia — this is the nervous system of the drone war f
     
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Russia’s ex-space chief calls for “systematic zeroing out” of the Starlink satellite constellation

Par :Yuri Zoria
14 juillet 2026 à 05:38

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A Russian senator has demanded the destruction of the Starlink satellite constellation, claiming its loss would allow Russia to win the war in Ukraine within weeks, The Moscow Times reported. The call landed as a joint European investigation revealed that Russia and China have worked on anti-Starlink weapons for three years without producing a solution. 

Ukraine's access to Starlink gives it a significant advantage over Russia — this is the nervous system of the drone war for whoever holds it — SpaceX's cutoff of smuggled Russian terminals in early 2026 collapsed Russian frontline command and control and temporarily grounded parts of Moscow's own drone fleet, leaving Russia to fight the network it once quietly used.

"Koschei's needle in Elon Musk's egg"

Dmitry Rogozin, a senator and former head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, wrote on Telegram that Ukraine must lose access to Starlink. He demanded a "systematic zeroing out" of the satellite constellation.

"The enemy will lose its advantage in global control of unmanned systems, and the war will end within two to three weeks with its complete rout. Starlink is that very needle of Koschei the Immortal that must be taken out of Elon Musk's egg and broken," Rogozin stated.

Koschei the Immortal is a villain of Russian folklore whose death is hidden in a needle concealed inside an egg, inside a duck, which is then stuffed into a hare—for whatever Russian reason. Breaking the needle kills him.

Communication and control of unmanned systems matter more in modern combat than thousands of tanks and aircraft, Rogozin claimed. He asserted that Russia knows several ways to cut its enemy off from Starlink, without naming any.

Ukrainian drones killed a Russian Buk-M3 air defense system. Credit: Lasar's Group
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Rogozin's statement came amid the publication of an investigation by Der Spiegel, The Insider, and Le Monde into Russian-Chinese military-technical cooperation. Beijing offered Moscow various ways to counter the Starlink network as early as 2023, the outlets found.

The Chinese proposals ranged from cyberattacks and diplomatic pressure to developing means of physically destroying satellites. So far, no solution has been proposed, according to the investigation.

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