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President of Ukraine since 2019, leading the country's wartime government and military response to Russia's invasion.
Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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EU leaders have asked the Commission for new trade instruments as the China deficit, €360 billion last year, is set to be larger this year. We expect more trade defense, but its form is unsettled while leaders contest a 2028 to 2034 budget.
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Ukraine's defence adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov says an unannounced 100 mph speed cap on Starshield's military package caused several missions to fail. Accounts of who imposed it conflict, so supplier risk and political risk cannot yet be separated.
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A bipartisan group of US senators asked the Pentagon inspector general to find who caused Starlink's 12-14 October speed limits in Ukraine. Elon Musk, whose SpaceX owns both Starlink and Starshield, says the US military sets limits on Starshield.
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Elon Musk said the US military and ultimately the president decide Starshield speed limits, after a 100mph cap cut Ukrainian weapons off Starlink. The US government has not commented, so his account of who sets the limits is unconfirmed.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Cloudflare Radar shows Yandex's automated traffic fell sharply after the strikes, but researchers saw no matching drop in known propaganda networks. Cloudflare counts crawlers, scanners and malware as bots, so the dip cannot be read as a count of political accounts.
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Treasury licensed Russian diesel sales after President Trump said Vladimir Putin would immediately release hundreds of thousands of tonnes onto world markets. NBC News reported that the authorization runs until April 7, 2027, so operators have a fixed end date to budget against while the promised tonnage rests on Trump's account.
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Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine agreed to an immediate halt to strikes on each other's energy infrastructure, though neither government had confirmed it. Ending refinery strikes would remove one source of the energy-price pressure Trump has cited, but only once both capitals confirm the deal and say what it covers.
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Brent crude traded near $105 a barrel as Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia met a temporary US waiver on Russian diesel. Goldman Sachs estimates the Gulf risk premium at just over $20 a barrel.
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Drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, the Kyiv Independent reported. Yandex's fintech head said many users could not check balances or pay. Site protection now belongs in the cyber-risk register.
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CNN reported a US plan to suspend sanctions on Russian fuel exports for six months while Ukraine stops hitting refineries. Analysts cited in the report expect little effect on diesel prices.
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South Korea is recalling its ambassador to Ukraine over Volodymyr Zelensky's disclosure that North Korean prisoners of war were sent to Seoul. A report cited by SCMP, of more than 176,000 tonnes of fuel shipped from South Korea to Russia, becomes a problem for Korean refiners only once its sellers are named.
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Ukrainian drones forced Yandex to shut its Sasovo data center, one of its five major sites, knocking many Yandex Cloud services offline. For anyone hosting in Russia or Ukraine, the outage to plan for now includes losing a whole building and the hardware inside it.
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Ukraine's sanctions adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk criticized South Korean fuel shipments to Russia after the Guardian tracked over 176,000 tons in July and August. Any cost to the refiners shipping from Ulsan and Yeosu would come through Seoul's own export-control list, and the government's reply leaves open whether diesel is on it.
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Friedrich Merz took 10 defense and energy executives to Kyiv as Berlin prepared to unveil about 1bn euros in military aid and 350m euros for energy repair. How much of that money turns into orders for German or other European suppliers depends on terms that have not yet been published.
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Russia confirmed striking Datagroup's Kyiv data center and said it is also targeting sites owned by New-Telco, United DC, Kyivstar and Parkovyi. Hosting plans for Ukraine now need a recovery copy that survives losing a whole building to a strike.
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Russian authorities counted 450 drones downed near the capital and more than 1,600 across all perimeters since the previous day. Volume is the part of this escalation that anyone has actually measured.
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The bill was introduced in 2023 and passed on Wednesday, a week after anti-corruption investigators accused officials in the Prosecutor General's Office of taking bribes to shield call centers from police. It awaits Zelensky's signature.
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