The Daily Populous Sunday February 8th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by kyivindependent.com and submitted by Significant-Bar-6780

The pro-Ukrainian Atesh partisan group disabled communication infrastructure in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, the group claimed early on Feb. 8.

"An agent of our movement set fire to a hardware module at the base of a communication tower. As a result of the destruction of the ground equipment, all the infrastructure installed on the mast was completely de-energized and put out of action," the Atesh group announced.

The act of sabotage was conducted near Ukraine's border with Russia and "effectively blinded the enemy in this sector," the group said in a Telegram post.

Meanwhile, with control equipment disabled, the front line in the area has created an opportunity for Ukrainian forces to circumvent signal jamming, Atesh claimed.

"The tower served as a platform for electronic warfare antennas that suppressed drone signals. The destruction of this technical post opened a 'window' for the unimpeded operation of Ukrainian" drones, the group said.

On Feb. 5, Russian forces were cut off from access to Starlink satellite internet across the front line with the introduction of a new "white list."

Ukraine and SpaceX worked to block Russian access to the Starlink service within Ukraine using a mass registration scheme on the government services application Diia.

Low_Push_9660 on February 8th, 2026 at 15:57 UTC »

The global world required constantly reinforced supply chains, & we no longer live in a global world. We are segregated in ways that feel as rigid & contrived as the cold war, only we are in such a dark age we no longer are allowed words to describe our situation.

This will all pop. Our world is the bubble.

War will destroy the chains that enable surveillance & AI & all the surreal dystopian shit that will not & should not last.

Someday the transatlantic cables will all snap, & the sky will be filled with angry steel noise. We will be closer to how we were, but unready, not made for that world.

Now is the time to prepare. Any luxury that you possess is a stone on personal growth. We will be defined by what we have to offer, & what we can provide.

fapal_ne_ustaval2 on February 8th, 2026 at 13:54 UTC »

Yeah military sure

saraknow on February 8th, 2026 at 12:44 UTC »

The fact that they specifically targeted the 'hardware module at the base' rather than the tower itself shows a high level of technical planning. This is how you effectively disable EW capabilities without needing a massive strike