Ukraine without intelligence and without internet will return to the war of the twentieth century

Donald Trump continues to distribute doses of pride and cruelty to his former Ukrainian ally. If last Monday it was the pause in the delivery of war material, which was a worrying challenge for the kyiv troopsnow he left them Blind to the close the vital intelligence collaboration which gave some advantage to the soldiers of the invaded country. In Ukraine they wonder what will be the next thing to expect from the country he had promised to be with them «the time is needed.»

The decision is terrible in military terms. Thanks to this Ukraine intelligence he could know before many Russian generals that the Z troops were going to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022, giving Zelenski an opportunity to prepare a resistance that served to overcome the Russians around kyiv and Járkiv, the two most important cities in the country. Putin responded on Wednesday to Zelenski’s truce offer with an attack of 183 drones and three ballistic missiles over all Ukraine.

In addition, now Ukraine You will not be able to access to the information with which he activated his Early alertsthat is, the takeoff of the bombers, the drones and the missiles from Russian territory, which allowed us to notify the Ukrainian civilians to go down to the shelter. Now you will have to use your own radar equipment, much lower in detection capabilities. Undoubtedly, this decision of the Trump administration can cause the death of civilians in Ukraine.

It is difficult to measure the damage point that Trump intends to cause in Ukraine to agree to negotiate in the conditions already agreed between Washington and Moscow. The Trump administration assured that all these measures They would relax at the moment in which «date, time and place» was known to start some talks that seem more a submission to your invader.

Andrii Yermak, the right hand of Volodimir Zelenski, spoke by phone with advisors of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. Ukraine desperately seeks help in his current partners so that Ukrainian demands are heard in Washington.

He Next step Trump and his advisor Elon Musk can be the disconnection of Ukraine of Your Starlink Satellite Networkessential for current communications from the command centers to the last trenches of the front. If Washington cuts this service, Ukraine will be blind of intelligence and with its isolated units without communication, that is, USA returns kyiv to the war of the twentieth century.

If the US cuts that service, it would conflict with Poland, which currently hires and pays 20,000 network terminals for Ukrainian use. Although Washington does not seem to have any problem with conflict with old allies.

The Eutelsat French satellite group is studying with several European countries to replace telecommunications services that its American rival Starlink gives to Ukraine. Starlink It belongs to the spacex space flight giant, founded and controlled by Elon Muskdeclared a sympathizer of Vladimir Putin, which on Tuesday tweeted in his social network X, that Zelenski should abandon power and be sent into exile to a third country.

The incongruity of Musk’s position is quite remarkable, if one takes into account that immediately after the Russian invasion of 2022, he was the one who decided to deliver the antennas receiving to Ukraine for free and serve him without collecting. Subsequently, he changed his mind and threatened to cancel Ukraine access to Starlink if the US government did not cover the expenses, how it ended up happening. Today the subscription the Poland Pag.

Starlink has played a Absolutely key role in the defense of Ukrainealthough Musk, who speaks regularly by phone with Vladimir Putin, has become defend the positions of the invader. Already in 2023, the billionaire and now Donald Trump advisor unexpectedly cut Ukraine to Starlink to prevent an attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet, which was in the Crimean Peninsula.

Musk began his approach to Putin precisely defending that year the Russian sovereignty about Crimea, a Ukrainian territory that Moscow officially resigned in 1994 and, however, invaded and annexed 20 years later. Starlink satellites do not distinguish the territory in which the antennas have to be, so the services of this company are also used by the Russian military.

Now, the future of the service that Starlink provides in Ukraine is surrounded by uncertainties, after Trump decided on Monday night to suspend military aid to that country.

That’s where Eutelsat has entered to play a role. The French company has among its assets the British group OneWeb, which it acquired last year. Oneweb provides, like Starlink, telecommunications services through a Satellite network at low altitude. However, Their abilities are much lower to those of his American rival. Oneweb only has 600 satellites in orbit, which Eutelsat could add its fleet between 35 and 38 geostationary satellites, which is at a much higher altitude. Starlink, on the contrary, has 7,086 satellites in orbit and every week launches between 60 and 90 more.

The Oneweb terminals, in addition, designed to be used by companies and states, while those of the Musk company are directed to individual consumers. That makes Starlink antennas much smaller and more easy to move, two key features in a war.

Anyway, OneWeb seems the only non -American – and, therefore, not subject to the proruse anger of Donald Trump – that could be made available to Ukraine in the event that Washington cuts Starlink’s communication.

As reported yesterday by the British newspaper Financial Timesthe European Commission is analyzing other options, including allowing Ukraine access to the Govsatcom system, which will provide communications services encrypted to EU countries. The big problem is that this network will not be available until 2026. In that year the Kuiper project, of Amazon, will also enter into full functioning, which seeks to create an alternative network to Starlink.

The Kuiper project has aroused Taiwan’s interest, which wants a satellite communications network at low altitude in case of a Chinese invasion. Taipei’s authorities do not want to use Starlink due to the huge dependence of the Chinese market of Tesla, whose maximum shareholder and manager is Musk.