China is more likely than the EU to replace Starlink on the Ukrainian battlefield

This is, however, not likely to benefit Ukraine in the long term. Ukrainian government agencies have in recent years purged Chinese telecoms equipment like Huawei from their networks since the start of the war.

Chinese companies routinely provide Russia with high-tech services and equipment that the U.S. and EU ban. In January, [Chinese rival to Starlink] SpaceSail set up a subsidiary in Kazakhstan, a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States and a long-time eager intermediary for Russian sanctions evasion.

SpaceSail’s ongoing launches are consequently more likely to give Russian soldiers in Ukraine internet services that Ukrainian soldiers have long enjoyed than they are to help Ukraine move beyond Starlink.

Addition: The headline could easily be misinterpreted imho. What is meant is that China has more satellites in space at the moment which makes it technologically more competitive to Starlink as of now. It would be not a good idea for Ukraine to turn to choose China given the Chinese governments support for Russia in its aggression, however, and this is also what the article eventually suggests.