Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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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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Ukraine's military can use Starshield on the move again, a Defense Ministry source says, after a speed limit disrupted drone missions. The cause is unexplained, and officials are in talks with SpaceX and its partners to find it.
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SpaceX imposed a speed limit on Starlink terminals mounted on Ukrainian drones overnight, Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Wednesday. SpaceX and the White House did not immediately comment, so the political motive he alleges rests on his word alone.
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Ukrainian commanders report lost drones and failed missions after a one-day Starshield restriction, Fast Company reported. Elon Musk said this week that decisions about the system's use rest with the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president.
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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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Eutelsat shares rose 25% in five days after Kyiv said SpaceX curbed its military Starlink service, CNBC reported. SES rose 2.6% in the session Eutelsat traded 23% higher, and Deutsche Bank expects Eutelsat to give back some of the gain.
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buildOne report1 publisher Ukraine attacked some of Yandex's biggest data centers over the past week, Tom's Hardware reports, disrupting national apps and city services. A Cloudflare report says the bot traffic moved to other hosts.
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Trump called Ukraine's refinery strikes a 'disgrace' as EU leaders hosted Zelenskiy in Brussels with a $32.6 billion budget gap for next year unfunded. Funding and air defence are on the agenda, and the strikes' effect on European energy prices is disputed.
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Drone strikes on at least seven ships off Romania and Bulgaria this month have left two people dead and at least 25 missing, ABC News reported. Some NATO members wonder whether Moscow is testing their support for Ukraine, but the account does not establish who launched the drones.
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CBS News, citing multiple sources, reports the US may have deliberately withheld missile-launch warnings from Ukraine in the week Russian strikes killed six. Allies that rely on US warning data now have two reported gaps to weigh, this week's and one earlier this year.
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Ukrainian drones hit Sberbank's Balakovo data center on Wednesday, the fourth Russian site struck in a week after three of Yandex's. Neither company has said whether a supercomputer was damaged.
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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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Ukraine hit three Yandex data centers with drones in a few days, the latest on Oct. 11 in the Vladimir region. Zelenskyy says the strikes also silenced pro-Russian bots, but the one measured figure in the coverage describes traffic from Yandex's own network.
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A7A5 stablecoin transfers fell to 14 a day on Tron and 18 on Ethereum after Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers. Elliptic's Tom Robinson ties the two, though the issuer's own explanation so far is technical problems.
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Ukraine said Wednesday that SpaceX abruptly limited its military-grade Starlink access without warning. Musk replied on X that the US government owns Starshield and that the US military and president decide any limits.
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North Korea's Kimsuky targeted Ukrainian diplomacy and security experts with fake conference invitations, Genians reported Monday. Most observed attempts failed, and Genians' researchers say the aim may be intelligence on the war.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Ukrainian drone operators say Starshield links drop above roughly 160 km/h, a limit that aborted several missions on the night of 14 October. SpaceX has not explained it, so crews cannot tell whether it will hold.
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buildConfirmed4 publishers Cloudflare reports Yandex-network bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers. The series covers one network's requests, so it documents a provider outage more firmly than any change in global traffic.
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