KYIV (The Thursday Times) — Ukrain ke sadar Volodymyr Zelenskyy ne Itwar ko kaha ke Starshield, yani front line par istemal hone wali fauji darje ki satellite internet service, ki raftar par pabandiyon ne Russi drone aur missile hamlon ki ek mohlik lehar ko kamyab hone mein madad di hai. Starlink ki malik company SpaceX internet ki raftar mehdood karne ki tardeed kar chuki hai.
“In mein se bohat se hamle is liye kamyab ho rahe hain ke front line aur aarzi tor par qabze wale ilaqon mein Starshield terminals ki raftar par pabandiyan ab bhi maujood hain,” Zelenskyy ne X par likha. Unhon ne Kyiv mein sahafiyon ko bataya tha ke yeh pabandiyan taqriban paanch din se lagi hain aur “poori front line” par asar andaz hain. Un ke mutabiq Ukraini drones 161 kilometer fi ghanta (100 meel fi ghanta) se zyada raftar par rabta kho dete hain, jis se aane wale jet se chalne wale Shahed drones ko rokna mushkil ho jata hai.
Starshield ka control kis ke paas hai
Starshield, Starlink ka fauji version hai jo Amriki hukumat Ukrain ko faraham karti hai, jabke Ukraini forces maidan-e-jang mein rabton ke liye aam Starlink service istemal karti hain. Zelenskyy ne kaha ke wizarat-e-difa ne yeh masla SpaceX ke saamne uthaya, jis ne jawab diya ke woh koi pabandi nahin laga rahi aur ise takniki kharabi qarar diya. “Hum nahin mante ke aisa hai,” unhon ne kaha. Unhon ne hukkam se kaha ke woh Amriki hukumat aur Elon Musk ki company ke saath qareebi taawun karein, aur mazeed kaha ke “tareekh ke durust pehlu par hona zaroori hai”.
Yeh tanaza naya nahin. Raftar ki pabandiyan pehli baar October mein saamne aayi thin, aur Musk ne us waqt kaha tha ke Starshield Amriki hukumat ke control mein hai. Sadar Donald Trump ne zimmedari se inkar kiya aur kaha ke unhon ne Musk se kaha tha ke “ise wapas kar do”. Taqriban ek hafte baad service mamool par aati dikhai di, phir Ukrain ne dobara pabandiyon ki ittila di.
Raat bhar ke hamle
Russia ne raat bhar kai ilaqon mein tawanai aur railway ke dhanchon ko nishana banaya. Tawanai company DTEK ke mutabiq Odesa mein tawanai ki ek tansib par hamle se 41 hazaar gharane bijli se mehroom ho gaye. Ukraini fauj ne kaha ke us ne raat bhar daaghe gaye 132 Russi drones mein se 106 maar giraye. Hafte ko shimali Koriukivka ke ilaqe mein ek tansib par drone hamle mein do afraad halak hue.
Ukrain ne kaha ke us ki forces ne Russia ke ilaqe Tatarstan ke shehar Nizhnekamsk mein ek petrochemical plant aur tel saaf karne ke karkhane ko nishana banaya, aur maqami hukkam ne wahan chhe afraad ke zakhmi hone ki ittila di. Russi wizarat-e-difa ne kaha ke us ne Ukrain ke fauji hawai addon aur aslahe ke depot par hamle kiye.
Yeh shikayat aise waqt aayi hai jab Kyiv par deegar dabao bhi hain. Zelenskyy ne is hafte ke awail mein kaha tha ke Washington ne NATO rukniyat ke badle Ukrain ke Donbas se dastbardar hone ka khayal pesh kiya, aur Trump, Xi Jinping aur Vladimir Putin agle hafte Shenzhen mein mulaqat karne wale hain, jis ke agenda mein Ukrain shamil nahin.
