Key facts
- Ukraine's General Staff said the jamming station near Sartana was designed to disrupt satellite communications.
- The General Staff said ammunition depots near Tokmak and Ostrykivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast were also struck.
- A warehouse storing materiel and technical supplies near Krasnohorivka in Donetsk Oblast was struck, per the General Staff.
- Military technology adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said on November 2 that Russia was deploying more jamming systems against Starlink along the front line.
- Ukraine uses Starshield terminals to control interceptor drones that counter Russian Geran drones, the report said.
Ukraine's General Staff said on November 9 that Ukrainian forces struck a Russian electronic warfare system designed to disrupt satellite communications near Sartana, in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast, overnight from November 8 to November 9.
The same statement said Ukrainian forces struck Russian ammunition depots near Tokmak and Ostrykivka in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and a warehouse storing materiel and technical supplies near Krasnohorivka in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast. The General Staff gave no assessment of damage at any of the sites.
The report linked the strikes to Ukraine's reliance on satellite communications for military operations. It said unexpected restrictions on the Starlink satellite network in October disrupted several Ukrainian military operations, and that Ukraine uses Starshield terminals, among other systems, to control interceptor drones that counter Russia's jet-powered Geran drones.
On November 2, Ukrainian military technology adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Russia was increasingly deploying electronic warfare systems designed to jam Starlink communications along the front line, according to the report.