On October 14, 2026, Ukraine experienced speed throttling of its connections to Starshield, Starlink’s military counterpart. The imposed strict speed ceilings restricted connections for any terminals or drones exceeding 100 miles per hour. That grounded or disconnected Ukraine’s faster military strike and interceptor drones, which rely on communication with operators over long distances. Almost as…
Lest you doubt President Donald Trump is inclined to abandon Taiwan to the designs of China, consider that he welcomes the communist behemoth to talks on the future of Ukraine. This past Monday, Trump stated that he is open to a denuclearization summit between the United States, Russian, and China with talks reserved to negotiate…
Elon Musk on Saturday acknowledged that he took the decision to restrict Starlink satellite internet services in Ukraine, which the country relies on to counter attacks from Russia. His remarks came after Kyiv’s access to the services was restored. Elon Musk reiterated in a post on X that Starlink’s internet services cannot be used to…
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Elon Musk said Kyiv violated the terms of SpaceX’s commercial Starlink service by using it for offensive drone strikes, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Starlink and Starshield operations had been restored to the speeds available before recent restrictions were imposed. “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone…
The Starlink satellite communications and its Starshield defense system in Ukraine are back to full speed after more than a week of disruptions that hampered Ukrainian military operations and sparked a blame game between Elon Musk and the Trump administration. The systems are critical to Ukraine’s battlefield communications, drone operations and efforts to intercept Russian…
Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine’s military access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries, according to six former senior US officials familiar with the matter. During the presidency of Joe Biden, the…
The Trump administration’s “exclusive intermediary” made a splash with a bombshell announcement. There’s a new power player in the long-running war between Russia and Ukraine. First Lady Melania Trump, 56, announced on Friday that she had successfully negotiated a temporary ceasefire in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky—potentially upstaging her husband, President Donald Trump, who has…
The president was forced into it after his public story fell apart. Megan Briggs/Megan Briggs/Getty Images President Donald Trump secretly called billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk to beg for the removal of crippling speed restrictions on a military-grade SpaceX system used by Ukrainian defense forces, U.S. officials have revealed. Trump reached out directly to the…
Stephen Hubbard, a retired U.S. teacher and Air Force veteran, was released from Russian custody on Wednesday after spending over four years in prison. Hubbard was serving a roughly seven-year sentence after being accused by Russia in 2022 of working with Ukraine as a mercenary. American President Donald Trump announced his release from prison on…
The rift between Europe and the United States over Russia’s war on Ukraine has plunged to a new depth as Donald Trump doubles down on his embrace of Vladimir Putin, jolting an alliance that was already treading on thin ice. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Over just two striking weeks, the US president has struck a diesel deal…