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Starlink terminals need to be put on the balance sheet, although the Ministry of Defense previously reported that it is enough to put them on a "white list" for verification. This is necessary to avoid problems with subsequent audits. About this for text LIGA.net interlocutors from various branches of the military and government agencies said.

The Ministry of Defense said that they are not interested in who owns the terminals, on what basis who uses them, and whether they are on the balance sheet. They need to clearly understand which terminals are working in Ukraine's interests and which are working against them. This is necessary to prevent the operation of enemy equipment.

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"We don't need anything to be on the balance sheet. If it is, for example, a military man, he confirms through his Delta account that he has a Starlink with such and such a number. We submit this number to the white list for operation in Ukraine," said LIGA.net advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, communications systems specialist Serhiy (Flash) Beskrestnov.

As Beskrestnov assured, "these lists will no longer go to commanders or anyone else, no one will take them away or put them on the balance sheet."

However, 15 interlocutors LIGA.net from various branches of the military and government agencies added that in order to recognize terminals on the basis of "friend or foe", it is not really necessary to put them on the balance sheet. This is necessary so that those who use Starlink will not have problems when they are inspected.

Military units and military formations are not always formally called "state institutions" in the popular sense, but legally they are, explained LIGA.net dmytro Paliushchenko, Head of Business Support Practice at Juscutum Law Firm. This means that they use state resources and have to report their property in the relevant accounting systems.

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The lists submitted for verification are a ready-made data register that auditors will sooner or later receive. Therefore, all terminals that provide communication to government agencies must be legalized. And the number of working "starlinks" of each institution should be as close as possible to what the institution has on its balance sheet, explained LIGA.net a representative of one of the state defense structures.

At the moment, it seems that almost everyone will have problems with this.

Most users do not have proper documents for the right to operate terminals. At best, they only have acts of acceptance and transfer for free use, which already creates grounds for liability. The reason for this is anti-corruption restrictions: Article 54 of the relevant law explicitly prohibits government and local authorities from receiving any material assets for free.

Lawyer Dmytro Palyushchenko in a commentary LIGA.net emphasized that although Starlink's verification procedure does not formally oblige them to be recorded on the balance sheet, refusing to do so is risky. The use of equipment without documentary support may be regarded as an illegal acquisition of assets by a state entity. Thus, a legal conflict arises when the property is actually in operation, but is not officially recorded in the accounts.