Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a law on social assistance for unemployed Ukrainians. In addition, this decision effectively disables Starlink in Ukraine, according to Polish Minister of Digitalization Krzysztof Gawkowski.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a law on social assistance for unemployed Ukrainians. In addition, this decision effectively disables Starlink in Ukraine, according to Polish Minister of Digitalization Krzysztof Gawkowski.
“This is the end of the Starlink internet that Poland is providing to war-torn Ukraine. It also means the end of support for storing Ukrainian government data in a secure location,” Gawkowski wrote on X.
In July, Poland’s digitalization minister reported that their country spends $200 million a year supporting Starlink satellite internet. Poland has already purchased 30,000 Starlink kits for Ukraine. In April, the country delivered another 5,000 Starlink Enterprises for the military and critical infrastructure.
"I can't imagine a better gift for Putin's troops than shutting down the internet in Ukraine, which the president has just decided to do. Mr. President, you should stop blindly attacking the government in the name of political struggle. You are harming people who are fighting for their independence while helping Russia," Gavkovsky wrote in his post.
