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Ukraine accuses SpaceX of restricting Starlink, disrupting military amid Trump pressure
14 October 2026 at 08:51
Ukrainian officials and military units accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of throttling a technology at the heart of their battlefield communications and drone operations.
Elon Musk has called his Starlink terminals the "backbone" of Ukraine's army, saying the "entire front line would collapse" if he turned them off. A series of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital Tuesday as Russian missiles struck the city. A blast crater outside a high-rise residential building in Kyiv that was damaged in a Russian drone attack Monday. Residents escape a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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