Ukraine accuses SpaceX of disrupting Starlink drone missions — SkimNews
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- SpaceX limited Starlink connections for military-grade terminals moving at 110-120 km/h, causing 10-20 second dropouts that made drones harder to control, per Ukraine's 7th Rapid Reaction Corps deployed in the southeast.
- Serhiy Beskrestnov, Ukrainian presidential adviser, said on Telegram that defense forces received no warning before the limitation, disrupting several missions.
- Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski publicly confronted Musk on X, asking 'are you playing politics with your products again?' — Poland pays for Ukraine's Starlink subscriptions on Kyiv's behalf.
- Russia struck power stations in Kyiv and Kharkiv with 39 missiles, killing 2 and wounding 21 at a residential building and leaving roughly 600,000 people without power; Ukraine intercepted only 4 missiles, reflecting weakened air defenses.
- Zelensky said Ukraine received no Western intelligence warnings for a second consecutive day, and called the Russian barrage 'ostentatious disrespect' toward Trump, whose claimed energy ceasefire neither side confirmed.
- Trump publicly called on Kyiv to halt attacks on Russian refineries and said Ukrainians should replace their wartime leader, while the US has separately threatened to cut off early-warning intelligence to press Ukraine into concessions.
Why it matters: Poland, which pays for Ukraine's Starlink subscriptions, publicly challenged Musk on X, expanding the dispute from a US-Ukraine matter into a NATO alliance question. Ukraine intercepted only 4 of 39 Russian missiles and 600,000 civilians lost power — concrete signs that disrupted communications and absent Western intelligence warnings are visibly degrading Kyiv's defensive capacity.
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