By Tom Balmforth KYIV, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Starlink internet terminals used by Russian troops in Ukraine have been deactivated, Kyiv said on Thursday, dealing what one official said was a big battlefield setback for Moscow that had disrupted assault operations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine with around 450 drones and 70 missiles, knocking out infrastructure and wounding at least 10 people

Russia has been mounting Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite systems on its attack drones to strike deeper into Ukraine, extending their potential flight range to well inside NATO territory, analysts and Ukrainian officials have said.

SpaceX has successfully cut off the Russian military from having “unauthorized” access to the Starlink satellite systems that had been used to attack Ukraine, Elon Musk said Sunday. Musk, the SpaceX CEO,

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.

Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, with over 1.2 million casualties. Russia is also in decline as a major economic power with slow growth,

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Ukraine is working with Elon Musk's SpaceX to stop Russia from guiding drones using the firm's ​Starlink internet system, the defense minister said on Thursday.

Zelenskyy spoke as negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv held U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi to end their war. Negotiators were meeting Thursday for a second day with discussions taking place amid increased Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and after a rise in civilian casualties.