Man in Dnipro activated 1,000+ Starlink dishes for the enemy
Imagine treating satellite terminal verification like a casual side hustle, except your side hustle hooks up frontline invaders to broadband.
A man from Luhansk Oblast was browsing Telegram looking for quick cash, which in wartime Ukraine almost invariably ends with counterintelligence knocking on the door. Russian handlers contacted him with an offer: register and verify satellite equipment on demand.
He initially registered one dish in his own name. The handlers liked the result and told him to scale up massively. So he turned local postal branches into a personal satellite activation factory, churning through fake credentials and straw-person identities. He managed to activate over 1,000 Starlink systems for Russian troops before the SBU raided his apartment.
Officers confiscated his phone loaded with chat logs and proof of payouts, while every single one of those thousand terminals was promptly wiped from the network.
Setting up clandestine satellite networks for an invading army turns out to be somewhat riskier than ordinary gig work.
Source: Facebook
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