Musk's Starlink System Is Indispensable To Ukrainians In Frontline Town

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The Starlink satellite network owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk keeps Ukraine’s Chernihiv Region online amid Russian threats.

In Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, residents near the Russian border have grown used to power cuts and mobile Internet outages. In place of the vulnerable local infrastructure, officials use communications terminals connected to the Starlink satellite network owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The private network has wide-ranging uses, from public Internet access points to emergency medical calls.