{"id":30848,"date":"2026-09-24T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=30848"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:48:15","slug":"starlink-pozhezha-polshcha-dyversiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/starlink-pozhezha-polshcha-dyversiya\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starlink station caught fire in Poland: the authorities suspect sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">A fire has broken out at a Starlink station in Poland. Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Hawkowski stated that it may have been caused by hostile sabotage aimed at disrupting internet connectivity, particularly for the Ukrainian military. The facility provides satellite internet to a significant part of Central and Eastern Europe, so the consequences of the incident may also affect Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gavkovsky suggests that hostile sabotage may have caused the fire.<\/li>\n<li>The aim may have been to disrupt communications for the Ukrainian military.<\/li>\n<li>The station serves a large part of Central and Eastern Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Starlink terminals in Poland are also used by medical staff, the railways and the emergency services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The theory that the fire was started deliberately is linked to a risk to communications<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Gavkovsky<\/strong> suggested that the fire might have been the result of an enemy sabotage operation. According to him, its possible aim was to disrupt internet connections, particularly for the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>This is the assessment of the Polish Deputy Prime Minister, not the established cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<h2>Poland\u2019s support for Starlink covers both civilian and government needs in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Poland is one of the key state suppliers of terminals <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/science-tech\/starlink-mobile-globalnyi-zapusk-5g\/\">Starlink<\/a> for Ukraine and covers the costs of maintaining them. According to the Polish authorities, this communication system is used not only for military purposes, but also in hospitals, medical centres, on the railways, at public assistance centres and for emergency communications in areas where terrestrial networks have been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>A prolonged disruption to such a system could potentially affect both defence communications and civilian services that rely on satellite internet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a fire at the Starlink station in Poland, Deputy Prime Minister Gawkowski suggested that it might have been an act of sabotage aimed at disrupting communications, particularly for Ukraine.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":30847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041f\u0456\u0441\u043b\u044f \u043f\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0436\u0456 \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0456\u0457 Starlink \u0443 \u041f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0449\u0456 \u0432\u0456\u0446\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u043c\u2019\u0454\u0440 \u0413\u0430\u0432\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u0432 \u043f\u0440\u043e \u043c\u043e\u0436\u043b\u0438\u0432\u0443 \u0434\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0456\u044e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438 \u0437\u0432\u2019\u044f\u0437\u043a\u0443, \u0437\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0430 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438.","rank_math_title":"\u041f\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0436\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0456\u0457 Starlink \u0443 \u041f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0449\u0456: \u043f\u0456\u0434\u043e\u0437\u0440\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0434\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0456\u044e","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Starlink","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805619],"tags":[805624],"class_list":["post-30848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-805624"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30849,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions\/30849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}