This is huge! For the first time in over two years, Ukraine has begun taking back their land, resulting in a net territorial gain in February, according to Finnish OSI group Blackbird.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

@randahl
Good news indeed!
Is it know what caused the sudden turnaround?

@Johan_Barelds @randahl

Taking starlink access away/cracking down on illegal access has impacted Russian frontline comms and navigation.

The Ukrainians got some excellent intel from Russian soldiers keen to access starlink, that gave away troop positions etc. Those positions were effectively targetted. There was a bit of crypto collected as part of the ruse.

@adavid @randahl
Thanks for that info!.
I seemed to remember it having something to do with Starlink being denied.

@Johan_Barelds @adavid @randahl

"There was a bit of crypto collected as part of the ruse."

to expand on Anthony's sentence:

ukraine set up portals for russians to register devices. and charged the russians. then targeted them with the information the russians provided

they've also answered kremlin bounties on the heads of, for example, a russian working for ukraine. they staged his death, collected the bounty from the russians, then welcomed the russian fighting for ukraine "back to life"

😂