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\nOn Monday night, in between the hourly air alarms reverberating outside his home, Oleg Kutkov stuck his SpaceX Starlink dish outside of his window in Kyiv, Ukraine, and pointed it up at the sky. To his surprise, he got a signal in just 10 seconds from one of SpaceX\u2019s satellites overhead, indicating he was receiving broadband internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly didn\u2019t believe that it would work,\u201d Kutkov tells The Verge<\/em>. \u201cI thought there might be some problems with obstructions, might be some problems with my Dishy. But no, it just connected. I got really good speed, really good connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI honestly didn\u2019t believe that it would work\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nKutkov has actually had a Starlink dish for a few months now, but wasn\u2019t able to use it. A software and communications engineer, he bought his off eBay \u2014 where dishes range from $2,000<\/a> to $3,000 \u2014 in order to reverse engineer the device and learn more about it. The person he bought the dish from transferred his US account to Kutkov, though there wasn\u2019t much Kutkov could do with it, as Starlink service wasn\u2019t available yet in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
He wrote an article<\/a> in late 2021 about his reverse engineering efforts, which garnered him some contacts within SpaceX, he says. He had also tried switching the address on his account from a US address to his own in Ukraine, but SpaceX support told him his location wasn\u2019t supported. Kutkov paid for the account anyway \u201cto keep service alive for my experiments and… just in case,\u201d he said through a Twitter message.<\/p>\n
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    Oleg Kutkov with the modified backside of his Starlink dish.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Oleg Kutkov<\/cite><\/p>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\nBut this week, <\/strong>everything changed. Over the weekend, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine\u2019s vice prime minister, tweeted at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk<\/a>, asking him to provide his company\u2019s Starlink service to Ukraine to help in the fight against the Russian invasion. Starlink is SpaceX\u2019s developing internet-from-space program, which envisions launching tens of thousands of satellites to low Earth orbit to beam broadband down to the surface. To tap into the system, individuals must have one of SpaceX\u2019s user terminals or dishes. (Kutkov refers to his as Dishy, likely a nod to SpaceX\u2019s nickname for the antennas, Dishy McFlatface.) SpaceX\u2019s satellites must also tap into gateways on the ground, which are connected to existing fiber-optic infrastructure.<\/p>\n
When Musk responded to Fedorov\u2019s tweet, saying that Starlink service was now active in Ukraine<\/a>, Kutkov decided to give his account another shot. He tried connecting his dish to his account, but the attempt failed at first. But then, Kutkov says SpaceX support reached out to him and told him his account should connect now. On Monday night, just after Fedorov tweeted a picture of a truckload of Starlink dishes<\/a> that had arrived in Ukraine, Kutkov stuck his dish outside his window to prove that the service was working.<\/p>\n
He sent out a couple tweets showing his download speeds, claiming he was able to reach a top speed of more than 200 Mbps<\/a>. SpaceX has nearly 2,000 active Starlink satellites<\/a> in orbit at the moment, and a handful orbit above Ukraine at any given time. Additionally, an unofficial map of Starlink\u2019s infrastructure<\/a> shows there are gateways in a few neighboring countries of Ukraine, which should help to keep the satellites connected.<\/p>\n
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Kutkov\u2019s little experiment was only a test, as he doesn\u2019t plan to use his Starlink dish full-time. He says he has a really good connection to fiber-optic internet, which hasn\u2019t had any disruptions so far. Plus, Kutkov tinkered with his dish so much that it can\u2019t even scan the sky anymore, as he removed the antenna\u2019s base. Ultimately, he just wanted to show to the people of Ukraine that Starlink is operational at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that I could test it and report to everyone that, \u2018Yeah, this is working in Ukraine. So it\u2019s good to go,\u2019\u201d Kutkov says.<\/p>\nOf course, he understands that his internet infrastructure could change in an instant. Just before he spoke with The Verge<\/em>, Kutkov says, one of his colleagues witnessed Russia attack a television tower in Kyiv with an airstrike<\/a>, a seeming attempt to disrupt the city\u2019s communications. So it\u2019s possible Russia could target Kyiv\u2019s existing internet system, too. Kutkov also mentioned that he\u2019s a bit cautious about using the Starlink dish regularly, as there has been speculation<\/a> that the equipment could make him susceptible to Russian airstrikes as well. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true or not, but from a technical point of view, it\u2019s possible,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I will be very, very careful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to stand and protect our property\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nAfter sending his tweets, he says he received a lot of messages from citizens of Ukraine asking where they could get a Starlink dish, and he had to explain that his came from eBay. He says he is unsure how the Ukrainian government plans to distribute the dishes, acknowledging that such a task could be pretty difficult right now. Air sirens warning of impending attacks have increased in frequency, he claims, and nearby explosions are becoming more regular.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiving here in Eastern Kyiv, I did see real explosions,\u201d he says. \u201cThe first explosion was at four in the morning when I was sleeping, so it\u2019s kind of insane. Yesterday we got really loud explosions in our neighborhood. Our house was shaking.\u201d He says he and his family does have a basement that they take shelter in when attacks occur.<\/p>\nBut Kutkov says he does not plan to leave, despite Russia telling Kyiv citizens<\/a> to depart the city and move to other regions. A former resident of Crimea, Kutkov says he and his wife already moved once to escape a Russian invasion, and he does not plan to move a second time. \u201cWe\u2019re going to stand and protect our property, and I think we\u2019re going to win,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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