SpaceX imposed new speed restrictions on Starlink satellite terminals used by Ukrainian forces overnight on Oct. 14, disrupting several military missions, Ukrainian activist and former Defense Ministry adviser Serhii Sternenko reported. Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov, known as Flash, subsequently confirmed the restrictions.

On October 14, 2026, SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed limit on military-grade Starshield terminals used by Ukrainian forces, automatically cutting internet connectivity for terminals moving faster than 100 mph (160 km/h) and disrupting several high-speed military drone operations.

    • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      305·
      15 hours ago

      Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.

      Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.

        • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          172·
          14 hours ago

          Unlikely. The “bot” traffic that cloudflare here identifies, is traffic according to the useragent, that is not an actual user + heuristics cloudflare uses to identify bot devices.

          Since ruski propaganda bots would want to act as legitimate users, spreading LLM and/or organically generated word soup, and/or pumping views. They not only have to not be identified as bots, but also to act well enough as a user no captcha and/or cloudflare bot identification catches them.