Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage
A fire broke out late on Wednesday at a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry internet traffic to Ukraine. Poland’s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said on Thursday that it looked like sabotage.
Speaking to public broadcaster TVP Info, Gawkowski said the blaze appeared designed to knock the station offline and cut internet access for several bodies, including Ukraine’s armed forces.
He told the broadcaster it could be part of a new phase of hybrid warfare, and that the station was still working.
The site is in Wola Krobowska, about 40km from the capital, and it is run by Exatel, a state-owned telecoms company, and it links Starlink’s satellites to ground networks in Poland and beyond.
The fire mainly hit the station’s power supply, a distribution board and a generator, Euronews reported. Firefighters put it out, and no one was hurt.
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