Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland(dpa-international.com)
382 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 281 comments
tl;dr: Bulgaria confirmed a fire on October 9 destroyed 11 of 17 antennas at a privately-owned Starlink facility near Sofia used to support Ukraine's war effort, with officials calling it likely sabotage. Two men aged 20 and 21 holding German passports were detained, and investigators are probing links to a similar September 23 attack on a Starlink ground terminal near Warsaw, whose suspects were arrested in Germany this week. Polish authorities suspect Russian intelligence is behind the Warsaw attack.
HN Discussion:
  • ↓Government shouldn't blame SpaceX for failing to protect against state-sponsored sabotage
  • ↑Russia may be escalating toward broader attacks on Eastern Europe out of desperation
  • •Concerned about corporations increasingly becoming legitimate war targets
  • ↑Bulgaria has more pro-Russian sympathy than Poland, providing context for the attack
  • •Russia's sabotage is ironic given Musk already limits Starlink use against Russia