I Do Not Blame People ...

 ... but sometimes I have to be hard on them because after 4 years people should have learned. So, I get today such comment to my video.

Military Summary said that yesterday that the Russians army were cut off of Starlink and the military is having trouble communicating to their commanders and they invaded Ukrainian Army part of what Russia 🇷🇺 had taken back. Andrei have you heard this and is it true? This was yesterday on Military Summary channel YouTube.

And people honestly want to know the answer most of the time. So, I will start from afar:

1. 90%+ of "military experts" on YouTube are pseudo-military frauds with zero military academic, command and tactical-operational experience. Most of these people they browse "Russian" TG channels by all kinds of same frauds as they are: Rybar, Poldolyaka et all, most of them being nothing but heralds of 404 propaganda and know NOTHING about issues of C4ISR--zero, zilch. And they sell it to unsuspecting people as "insights" and "expertise". Now to substance.

2. Russian Armed Forces while utilizing Starlink DO NOT depend on it whatsoever. Russian Armed Forces always had and have continuously expanding communications networks which are:

a) Protected;

b) High speed, albeit not as fast as Starlink internet but more than enough for effective Command and Control of Russian Armed Forces;

c) Including clandestine and high stability comm networks;

3. Since Soviet times, Russians have been present in space-based comms, including civilian, first in the world, TV satellite network Orbita, and even utilizing space comms and their receivers (Shluz) for work with space based navigation systems such as Parus/Cicada. Hm, how do I know this? Maybe because that is my degree and service experience?

4. But now, most important. Here are some older news, about Gonetz/Skif programs. From Reshetnev Corp in 2024.

The document, among other things, provides for development of domestic satellite groupings to provide high-quality, modern and competitive communication services throughout Russia, providing technological sovereignty of the country and the elimination of digital inequality. So, in particular, in As part of the strategy, in the next decade, it is planned to launch 28 Gonets-M1 satellites, 12 Skif satellites, 264 Marathon IoT devices and four Express-RV satellites into orbit. In addition, it will be updated orbital constellation of satellites of the Russian Federation on geostationary orbits: 19 spacecraft will be created and launched, the text of the document says. Also, by 2035, 98% of Russian Internet users should get the ability to network connection with a speed of 1 Gbps or more, and access to 5G on domestic communication equipment should appear in all cities of the country with population over 100 thousand people. Among other tasks is to achieve an increase in capacity of trunk lines for cross-border data transmission by 4.5 times, complete abandonment of 3G (by 2027), average mobile internet speed up to 125 Mbps, etc. Earlier, Yuri Borisov in an interview with Pro Cosmos said, that the creation of multi-satellite constellations is the main priority not only in the Russian Federation, but all over the world. Therefore, now Our country is focused on translating the main satellite-building assets for serial production. If today domestic enterprises can produceabout 40 satellites a year, then by 2026 it is necessary to bring this the figure is up to 250 devices annually.

Well, guess what? Those sats now ARE in serial production but most importantly, for anyone who still didn't get the message--that means that Russian military already operates this capability and, just two days ago, again: 

From the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with spacecraft was successfully launched in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The start took place on February 5 at 21:59 Moscow time, the department said. The launch of the launch vehicle and the insertion of spacecraft into the calculated orbit took place in the normal mode, indicated in the publication. The launch of the medium-class launch vehicle was carried out by the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces. After the launch, the flight was controlled by ground facilities of the automated complex of the German Titov Main Test Space Center. A stable telemetry connection has been established with them. All onboard systems, according to the military department, are functioning normally, in normal mode.

And just to explain more--from our friends (operational level officers)--Russian Army if fully netcentric and uses all those Russian military networks and is NOT dependent on anyone. And as if by accident, Voennaya Mysl in its December 2025 issue writes precisely about it:

Operational Provision of Geospatial Information For Ground Forces of Russian Federation Utilizing Mobile Digital Photogrammetric Stations. And guess what--I circled the list of Russia's combat networks in use. 

That's is also communications and they all are Russian-made. In general, the average YT "military expert" will not understand how combat communications networks are built and how Russian Army is the ONLY army in world which conducts massive combined arms war in netcentric paradigm. But, of course, my good friend Lt. Colonel Oleg Shalandin with whom we'll have a podcast next week, and who happened to be not only combat veteran but also communications officer with serious degree precisely in this, these "experts" from You Tube would shit their pants discussing things of REAL war, because they will be immediately exposed as frauds. So, let's leave it at that and for those who still have doubts--Russian military is fully independent of Starlink. It is also the ONLY military in the world which can make Starlink disappear. But let's hope we will not get there.