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Chinese retailer caught selling Starlink terminals to Russia (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.world

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SpaceX's Starlink user terminals are being openly sold in Russia, though CEO Elon Musk has denied knowledge of any such sales in the country.

The terminals, which link users with the Starlink satellite constellation are available on the Chinese company DJI's website in Russia.

The Shenzhen-based firm is better known as one of the world's leading drone producers. Soon after Russia began its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, DJI announced it would temporarily suspend business in both countries pending "compliance assessments."

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every company tracks where major hardware is shipped and the intended country of use. A company like Starlink definitely would because they need to know demand per region and support requirements in that region.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

They did, when it was shipped to China, why are you assuming they don't know where these are? They do, but it's not easy to figure out if it's the UA using them or the russians because the fighting is so damn close to each other.