万亿富翁商人、科技巨头和实业家埃隆·马斯克希望将其卫星互联网服务星链引入印度，并最近对阻碍星链启动的“寡头”发起抨击。据他所说，这些寡头一心想维持对印度人民的“垄断性控制”。就定价而言，星链对马斯克认为将受益的大多数人来说可能遥不可及——那就是印度广袤的农村腹地。即便截至2025年12月，该国634,955个村庄中有644,131个村庄已实现移动连接。
The trillionaire businessman, tech tycoon and industrialist, Elon Musk, wants to bring his satellite internet service, Starlink, to India, and has recently directed flak at "oligarchs" preventing Starlink's launch, who, according to him, were hellbent on maintaining their "monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people".Starlink would be, at least in terms of pricing, out of reach for most of whom Musk thinks it will benefit, that being India's vast rural hinterland, even as 6,44,131 villages of the country's 6,34,955 villages have been covered with mobile connectivity as of December 2025. But experts believe there might be another reason for India's hesitation — Ukraine's reliance on Starlink for its defence against Russia.
但专家认为，印度的犹豫或许另有原因——乌克兰依赖星链来抵御俄罗斯的侵略。就在有未经证实的报道称美国可能切断乌克兰对该服务的访问之际，Zoho公司创始人斯里达尔·文布警告称，印度不能轻信外国卫星网络，必须自行建设。在周三接受英国记者皮尔斯·摩根采访时，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基警告称，失去星链访问权将带来人员伤亡的代价。
Amid unconfirmed reports that the US could cut Ukraine's access to the service, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu warned that India cannot afford to trust foreign satellite networks and must build its own. In an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of the human cost of losing access to Starlink, saying the decision would lead to further casualties.
他表示：“这是个大错误……这一决定将导致大量人员损失。人们正因这一决定而死亡。”他的言论是在有报道称乌克兰军队在俄军对能源基础设施发动导弹袭击前突然失去星链服务访问权的背景下发表的，此次袭击导致基辅超过60万人断电。
"It's a big mistake . . . This decision will bring a lot of human losses. People are dying because of this decision," he said. The remarks came amid reports that the Ukrainian military abruptly lost access to the satellite internet service ahead of a Russian missile attack on energy infrastructure that left more than 600,000 people in Kyiv without electricity.
消防员和应急人员在10月15日俄罗斯无人机袭击导致住宅区受损的现场工作。星链为何对乌克兰抵御俄罗斯的防御至关重要？埃隆·马斯克的星链已成为乌克兰军队对抗俄罗斯的关键通信纽带，使部队和指挥官能够在移动网络和光纤电缆受损或被毁的前线地区接入互联网。据路透社报道，该卫星服务使乌克兰军队能够在不面临通信中断风险的情况下协调行动并共享关键信息。
Firefighters and emergency employees work at the site of a residential area damaged during a Russian drone strike on October 15.WHY IS STARLINK IMPORTANT TO UKRAINE'S DEFENCE AGAINST RUSSIA? Elon Musk's Starlink has become a critical communications link for Ukrainian forces fighting Russia, allowing troops and commanders to access the internet in frontline areas where mobile networks and fibre-optic cables have been damaged or destroyed. According to Reuters, the satellite service allows Ukrainian military units to coordinate operations and share critical information without the risk of having communications disrupted.
星链还在支持乌克兰的无人机行动中发挥关键作用。据路透社报道，其抗电子干扰能力使其对乌克兰军队在对抗俄罗斯军事阵地、补给线、燃料储备和其他后勤基础设施时使用的无人机具有重要价值。该卫星网络也被用于支持乌克兰的防空行动，特别是涉及拦截无人机的行动。这些无人机被部署以在俄罗斯攻击无人机到达目标之前将其击落，目标包括平民区和能源基础设施。
Starlink also plays a key role in supporting Ukraine's drone operations. According to Reuters, its resistance to electronic jamming has made it valuable to Ukrainian forces operating drones against Russian military positions, supply routes, fuel depots and other logistical infrastructure. The satellite network is also used to support Ukraine's air defence, particularly operations involving interceptor drones. These drones are deployed to engage incoming Russian attack drones before they can reach their targets, including civilian areas and energy infrastructure.
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基本人在2022年接受《连线》杂志采访时承认了星链的重要性，称其帮助乌克兰在俄罗斯对其城市和城镇实施封锁以及在被占领土期间保持通信。他说：“有时我们完全失去了与这些地方的通信。”他补充说，他对星链的支持心存感激。
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself acknowledged Starlink's importance in an interview with Wired magazine in 2022, saying it had helped Ukraine maintain communications during Russia's blockade of its cities and towns and in occupied territories. "Sometimes we completely lost communication with those places," he said, adding that he was grateful for Starlink's support.
乌克兰军人在俄罗斯占领的阿夫杰伊夫卡镇附近准备一个星链终端。星链中断会带来什么后果？乌克兰对星链的高度依赖意味着，该服务的任何中断都可能影响其协调军事行动和抵御俄军进攻的能力。10月14日（星期三），乌克兰报告称，星链和星盾服务在未事先通知的情况下出现限制，干扰了用于进攻打击和防空行动的无人机。
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares a Starlink terminal near the Russian-occupied town of Avdiivka.WHAT HAPPENS WHEN STARLINK GOES DARK? Ukraine's heavy dependence on Starlink means that any disruption to the service can affect its ability to coordinate military operations and defend against Russian attacks. On October 14 (Wednesday), Ukraine reported restrictions affecting Starlink and Starshield without prior warning, disrupting drones used in both offensive strikes and air-defence operations.
据乌克兰官员称，安装在移动平台上的终端被施加了速度限制，据报道限制为每小时100英里（160公里/小时）。这意味着行驶速度超过该阈值的无人机可能会失去连接，从而可能中断其任务。总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在周三接受英国记者皮尔斯·摩根采访时称，此次中断是一个“大错误”。“当然，如果攻击继续进行且星链无法使用，人们就会死亡，这毫无帮助，”他说。
According to Ukrainian officials, speed restrictions were imposed on terminals mounted on moving platforms, with a reported limit of 100 mph (160 kmh). This meant that drones travelling faster than the threshold could lose connectivity, potentially disrupting their missions. President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan on Wednesday, called the disruption a "big mistake". "People will die, of course, if attacks will continue and if Starlink will not work it's not helpful," he said.
泽连斯基补充说，他希望这些限制是“错误”的结果，暗示它们可能源于SpaceX的“巨大技术问题”。他后来告诉英国《金融时报》认为，本周SpaceX军用版星链接收器性能的变化——这削弱了乌克兰使用它们操控无人机的能力——是一项政策决定。“这不是技术问题，而是意愿，”他对报纸说。马斯克方面，他在社交媒体平台X上的一篇帖子中表示，军用版星链（即星盾）的使用最终取决于美国总统唐纳德·特朗普。
Zelensky added that he hoped the restrictions were the result of a "mistake", suggesting they could have stemmed from a "huge technical problem" at SpaceX. He later told the British newspaper, The Financial Times that he believed that changes in the capability of the military version of SpaceX's Starlink receptors this week, which curbed Ukraine's ability to use them to pilot its drones, were a policy decision. "It was not a technical problem, it was the will," he told the paper. Musk, for his part, stated in a post on social media platform X, that usage of the military version of Starlink aka Starshield, was ultimately up to Donald Trump, as President of the US."
“星盾系统由美国政府所有并受其控制。对速度或使用的任何限制均由美国军方决定，最终由美国总统决定，”他写道。这并非星链问题首次影响乌克兰军事行动。
Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS," he wrote. This was not the first time that problems with Starlink had affected Ukrainian military operations.
路透社于2025年7月25日发布的一份报告称，埃隆·马斯克曾于2022年9月下令关闭星链对乌克兰赫尔松地区部分区域的覆盖，当时乌克兰军队正试图包围贝里斯拉夫附近的俄军。路透社报告称，该决定导致前线通信、无人机监视和炮兵协调中断，进而导致行动失败。消防员正在与乌克兰城市克罗皮夫尼茨基于10月15日由俄军无人机袭击引发的大火作斗争。
In a report published on July 25, 2025, Reuters reported that Elon Musk had ordered Starlink coverage to be switched off over part of Ukraine's Kherson region in September 2022, as Ukrainian forces attempted to encircle Russian troops near the city of Beryslav. According to the Reuters report, the decision disrupted frontline communications, drone surveillance and artillery coordination, leading to the failure of the operation. Firefighters battle a blaze ignited by a Russian drone strike in the Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi on October 15.WHAT ARE THE LESSONS FOR INDIA REGARDING STARLINK?
关于印度对星链的启示，尽管星链能够在用户负担得起服务费用的前提下，为印度最偏远地区提供高速互联网连接，但事实仍然是，马斯克随时可能切断对星链的访问。正如《纽约时报》今年7月发表的一份报告所指出的：“一个易燃的性格，这位52岁的人的忠诚是模糊的。”
Keeping aside the fact that Starlink can provide high-speed internet connectivity even in India's most remote regions, provided users can afford the service, the fact still remains that Musk retains the ability to shut off access to Starlink at any particular point of time. As a report published by The New York Times in July this year noted, "A combustible personality, the 52-year-old's allegiances are fuzzy.
虽然马斯克被誉为天才创新者，但他可以单方面决定关闭某个客户或国家的星链互联网接入，并且他有能力利用该服务收集的敏感信息。其他国家已经注意到了这一点。2020年，中国与一个国际机构合作，在未能获得马斯克的保证——即星链不会在该国被滥用——之后，启动了自行发射13000颗互联网卫星的计划。台湾通过可能在假设中的中国入侵中受到威胁的海底互联网电缆与世界其他地区相连，出于同样的原因，一直不愿采用星链。
While Musk is hailed as a genius innovator, he alone can decide to shut down Starlink internet access for a customer or country, and he has the ability to leverage sensitive information that the service gathers".Other countries have taken the memo. In 2020, Chinaed with an international body to launch 13,000 internet satellites of its own, after failing to get an assurance from Musk that Starlink would not be misused in the country. Taiwan, linked to the rest of the world via undersea internet cables that would be vulnerable in a hypothetical Chinese invasion, has been reluctant to adopt Starlink for the same reason.
同样，欧盟部分出于对星链的担忧，去年拨款24亿欧元（约合26亿美元），用于建设用于民用和军用的卫星星座，正如《纽约时报》所报道的那样。如果印度要为星链开始商业运营授予必要的监管批准，新德里就需要吸取乌克兰的教训。它必须确保其国内通信和互联网基础设施足够健壮，以防止马斯克施加的星链中断导致关键服务瘫痪。
Similarly, the European Union, partly driven by misgivings about Starlink, earmarked 2.4 billion euros, or $2.6 billion, last year to build a satellite constellation for civilian and military use, reported The New York Times. If India is to grant the necessary regulatory approvals for Starlink to begin commercial operations, New Delhi would need to take the lessons from Ukraine into account. It must ensure that its domestic communications and internet infrastructure is sufficiently robust to prevent a Starlink blackout imposed by Musk from crippling critical services.
例如，印度的统一支付接口（UPI）就说明了发展国内数字基础设施而非完全依赖外国系统的重要性。如果由于任何原因，该国被切断从环球银行金融电信协会（SWIFT）网络——就像俄罗斯在入侵乌克兰之后那样——印度人仍然可以通过UPI继续进行数字交易。新德里同样必须确保其通信网络具有韧性、多样化，并且在外国卫星网络的访问受限或中断时，仍能维持基本服务。
India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), for instance, illustrates the importance of developing domestic digital infrastructure rather than relying entirely on foreign systems. If, for any reason, the country is cut out of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network, like Russia was following its invasion of Ukraine, Indians could continue to partake in digital transactions via UPI. New Delhi must similarly ensure that its communications networks are resilient, diversified, and capable of maintaining essential services if access to a foreign satellite network is restricted or interrupted.
正如Zoho创始人斯里达尔·文布最近在X平台的一篇帖子中所说：“我们不能相信他们的技术。我们别无选择，只能自行建设。”- 完-
As Zoho founder, Sridhar Vembu, put it recently in a post on X, "We cannot trust technology from them. We have no option but to build."- Ends