Yauhen Lehalau is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Russian troops in Ukraine increasingly have access to Starlink, the private satellite Internet network owned by Elon Musk that Ukraine's military relies on heavily for battlefield communications.
RFE/RL spoke with two Russian men who are fighting side by side with Ukrainian forces against the Russian military in the beleaguered city of Bakhmut as part of a group called the Free Russia legion.