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The accusation being made here is not about Russia using Starlink but about SpaceX selling them to both sides for which I haven't seen any evidence for. You can not like Musk all you want but making statements like that as if it's an established fact is dishonest. It implies malice when the most likely explanation is that these terminals simply just were obtained via 3rd parties. Starlink doesn't work in Russia or in the occupied territories but it does work near the front lines because Ukraine is using them there so if Russians are able to obtain an active terminal somehow then there's a good chance it will work.
You also seem to be implying that SpaceX isn't doing anything about it. What are you basing this on? How could you know? They've said that they're going to disable all terminals found out to be used by sanctioned parties and I don't see any reason to assume they're not doing this. For all we know they could have disabled hundreds if not thousands terminals by now. Ofcourse if you have evidence to the contrary then I'm interested in seeing it.
Because I have no dog in the fight and I only care about the truth. I have zero interest in the anti-Elon circlejerk - I'm just trying to figure out what's actually going on.