By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Starlink systems used by Ukrainian military units were down for two and a half hours overnight, a senior commander said, part of a global issue that disrupted the satellite internet provider.

A major Starlink outage disrupted battlefield communications for Ukrainian forces, causing a two-and-a-half-hour blackout overnight, according to a senior commander. The outage occurred due to an internal software failure at SpaceX,

A brief outage of Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, impacted Ukraine’s front line military communications, just hours after Russian drones hit the city of Kharkiv. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports from Kyiv.