SpaceX to Deorbit 100 Starlink Satellites Due to Detected Flaw

This... my hunch is faulty territory lockouts. Russia has been gray market importing starlinks given their usefulness in Ukraine.

This isn't it. I'm 100% sure

That would mean they're lying about the reason:

> An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted SpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and become hazards in low Earth orbit.

That doesn't mean that they couldn't fail as a consequence of a hack.....

Something close to that, I think.

Russia has been putting a lot of effort into beam jamming lately. DoSing/jamming the uplink interfaces could result in commands not relaying/executing, hence: loss of control.