Starlink Black Market: Are Musk’s dishes fueling conflict worldwide?

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Black market dealers are selling Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink kits to unconventional buyers, including Sudanese rebels and Russian forces in Ukraine. The use of these satellite dishes for low earth orbit broadband internet has caused outrage among US lawmakers, Ukrainian intelligence, and investigative journalists. Militant groups in war-torn regions have used Starlink to operate spy drones and carry out precise attacks. Russian-backed forces in Sudan have reportedly ordered hundreds of these terminals through third-party sellers.

Black market dealers are peddling Elon Musk ’s coveted SpaceX Starlink kits to unconventional buyers, ranging from Sudanese rebels to Russian forces entrenched in Ukraine .in these satellite dishes , prized for their provision of low earth orbit broadband internet, has sparked outrage among US lawmakers, Ukrainian intelligence, and investigative journalists alike.

In North Africa, the Russian-backed Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have reportedly ordered hundreds of these terminals through third-party sellers, as confirmed by both sellers and Sudanese military sources.

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