On the night of October 14, Ukrainian drone crews noticed something strange.
Their satellite links kept dying.
Not at random. The connections dropped whenever a terminal moved faster than a set speed, somewhere between 72 and 161 kilometers per hour depending on the unit. That's 45 to 100 miles per hour.
Nobody had warned them. Critical missions were disrupted, and some were called off.
The timing could hardly have been worse. Ukraine uses fast interceptor drones guided over Starlink to chase down Russia's jet-powered Shaheds, which fly at 400 kilometers per hour or more.
Serhii Beskrestnov, a technology adviser to Ukraine's president, said the country's partners were taking away one of its few chances to defend against them.
For the next ten days, a war ran on a setting nobody would admit to touching.
Ten Days, Three Stories