4 GOP Senators Demand IG Probe Into Ukraine Starlink Outage — SkimNews
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- Four Republican senators signed onto a letter to the Defense Department's inspector general expressing "grave concern" over Ukraine's sudden loss of access to Starlink and intelligence-sharing data.
- The senators asked the inspector general to investigate the circumstances of the outage, which the letter frames as critical to Ukraine's ability to intercept Russian drones.
Why it matters: An IG probe could publicly establish who was responsible for cutting Ukraine's drone-interception connectivity during an active war, shaping whether Kyiv can count on Starlink as a reliable battlefield asset going forward.
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