It makes this war even more tragic, because Ukraine and Russia are so intertwined socially and culturally, and there was no reason for Russia to escalate the war.
That said, Roskomnadzor can't fully lock down ingress and egress without drastically impacting the Russian economy and pissing off your average Russian who watches YouTube, games on Steam, and messages using Telegram.
Just today I heard they had big outages. Haven’t seen much news about it but perhaps, as this article mentions speculation, it was an internal shutdown rather than external actors? https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/21/russia-blames-tele...
Based on the outrage from the Telegram, VK (Russia's FB), and YouTube outage in 2024 caused by a similar test [0] the impact is quite high.
[0] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-reports-temporary-...
As in, connect terminal to some household fiber modem, then get whitelisted by DOD & SpaceX?
I wouldn't be surprised SpaceX already secretly does this tho hence the weird news how they allegedly supplying Starlink to Russian forces.