"Ukraine’s top military-intelligence officer said Russian invasion forces in his country are using thousands of Starlink satellite internet terminals, and that the network has been active in occupied parts of Ukraine for ‘quite a long time,'” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov’s comments in an interview suggest that Russia is starting to acquire Starlink terminals, made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, at a scale that could cut into a major Ukrainian battlefield advantage."
Starlink knows exactly where these terminals are at. We know that because more than one satellite is used for a user’s internet call (yes, that is the networking term). The location data is part of the metadata. So either Musk refuses to turn it off and is being an asshole or the NSA doesn’t want him to turn it off because they are running surveillance.
I’m going to go with the former because if it were the latter the Russians would know about it and wouldn’t be using it for anything other than browsing onlyfans.