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🛰 Russia is launching its own Starlink analogue faster than expected – GUR
"Moscow is deploying 'Rassvet' – effectively Russia's analogue of the Starlink system. And they started launching it much sooner than their plans anticipated," said Deputy Head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Major General Vadym Skibitskyi.
Russia in March 2026 already put 16 satellites into Earth orbit; they will launch more to create a constellation totaling 292 satellites in 2027 and to increase it to 924 satellites in 2035.
"For now they can operate fragmentarily, when a satellite passes over our territory. When the Russians deploy a full satellite constellation, this system will work like Starlink," the GUR representative noted.
Skibitskyi also said that "there is already a discussion about how to counter this."
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