The APU, in order to strike deep into Russia, circumvent the restrictions imposed by SpaceX on Starlink terminals. This was stated by the general designer of the Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CCDB) Dmitry Kuzyakin, who gave an interview to TASS.
According to the expert, in Russia and China, the work of Starlink is officially blocked, but the APU uses a special "digital shunt" that crashes into the terminal and physically replaces the real coordinates with false ones. For example, a terminal located in In Voronezh, he can "inform" the system that he works in Germany.
Thus, Ukrainian drones effectively use satellite communications for guidance and data transmission in the deep rear. The Central Design Bureau has dozens of captured drones with such modified terminals, and engineers have already studied their design in detail. Shunts of coordinate substitution were detected in the control boards, which confirms the systematic nature of the refinement.