First, for reference, the mainstream publishes these vagaries about the mysterious events above the Earth:
Boeing-made satellite shatters in orbit, and nobody knows why: The Boeing-made Intelsat 33e satellite broke apart in orbit over the weekend. But company representatives don't yet know why. (LiveScience 10/23/2024)
Jim Stone at jimstonereloaded.com (archived here https://archive.is/sII25) has this to say about it:
America's Intelsat 33E destroyed by foreign powers
UPDATE: Rumor has it that moments after Intelsat 33e was destroyed, Russia sank the entire Ukranian black sea fleet, 22 vessels in total.
looking for details now but NOTHING is getting through the censors. Why would this be censored? Because if Intelsat 33E is gone, a U.S. response is going to be difficult, and more importantly, it is possible that the sinking cannot be "officially" confirmed with that satellite gone.
OK, for now, Intelsat33E is definitely gone. Waiting for real confirmation on the sinking of the Ukranian navy. With today's tech and serious countries like Russia as an opponent, ships are going to look stupid. Not viable, so the story sounds convincing but more proof needed.
UPDATE: The story is being morphed to imply Intelsat 33E was civilian. Reality: if it is not replaced, America can't attack Iran without "unacceptable" losses, Intelsat 33e was 100 percent military, the war machine needed it.
I am willing to bet however that there's a backup that will soon be active, they just need to shorten the life span of another satellite by telling it to use it's stability thrusters to reposition it where it can be used for war. So this story is not over. Let's see if the replacement suffers an untimely death also.
The US has not admitted it, but a debris field containing about 80 large pieces makes denying it stupid.
Intelsat 33E was the most important military communications satellite in the atlantic/african/European theater. Satellites don't just transform into debris fields and I think Trump's threat to strike Moscow probably had something to do with it.
Officially Intelsat 33E is a communications satellite that was deployed in 2017 for "government use". It had a throughput of about 50 gigabits per second which is 10X more than most communications satellites. And now the punch line:
Satellites are fragile, AND WITH THEM, WAR WITH ARABS IS EASY. Get my drift?
It's destruction was as big an act of war as sinking a battleship. That baby was not cheap. I wonder what the response from the Pentagon will be, when something that was definitely radar cloaked and probably Russian did it, with no way to prove it. Russia likely has assigned a toxic companion to ALL military satellites that are not theirs, how is that going to work out for a military that needs to suck data like a baby pacifier to win?
Things just got interesting.
Confirmed: Even the censors are admitting Intelsat 33E no longer exists. War with Russia is not going to be "plug and play".
About satellite - you could check ukrainian sources if MIG-31s was in the air at the time close to this satellite accident. This could give you some clues. Something hypersonic fired from 30km altitude from supersonic jet could be not just some fancy air-to-surface missile.
As for "Ukrainian Navy" - it was completely destroyed in a first days of war. All existing navy. Some ships parked in Berdyansk and Mariupol ports came under Russian control. Today Ukraine have no any navy for a long time.
What you referred to are cargo ships that "only carrying grain from Ukraine!!!111" and border patrol boats. They was actively hunted and destroyed, in Odessa and Nikolaev ports. Looks like finally Russian MoD decided to finish that obvious circus with "it's just innocent cargo ship/patrol boat that didntdonothing".