Part of Russia's Escalating Strikes on Ukraine · 13 stories · since Sep 30 · newest 24m ago
Musk, Trump and Rubio give conflicting accounts of Ukraine's Starlink throttlingRubio and Bessent dispute Ukraine's account as Zelenskyy presses the issue
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Rubio said Ukraine was never denied Starshield and rebuffed speed-cap claims, Bessent warned Zelenskyy to 'be very careful' about his accusations, while Zelenskyy maintained the restrictions apply only in Ukraine and that SpaceX was ignoring Kyiv's inquiries — leaving Musk, Trump and Rubio offering three different explanations.
“be very careful”
Scott Bessent
Elon Musk SpaceX CEO
Donald Trump US President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukrainian President
Marco Rubio US Secretary of State
Scott Bessent US Treasury Secretary
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What was reported 5 claims about this development
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first by Fast Company, 2d ago · also Associated Press
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first by Reality Tea, 2d ago · also Yahoo
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first by France 24 EN, 3h ago
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first by CNBC, 3h ago
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first by France 24 EN, 3d ago
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What people said 24 voices · best of 34 · verbatim
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1\5 America went much further than that with its recent Starshield/Starlink restrictions on Ukraine. Let me explain the effects. Starlink is a technology that provides critical communication service to government and civilian sector, I repeat the service is critical. So what
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Zelensky says the US government ordered the Starlink and Starshield speed restrictions, which SpaceX then implemented technically. He says the restrictions have not been lifted. Ukraine also went three days without US intelligence needed to provide warning of Russian ballistic missile launches. # Ukraine
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Three days after Trump’s ceasefire announcement, Ukraine’s access to Starlink — the internet service provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX — was abruptly restricted, with subsequent reporting suggesting that the order to limit Starlink services came directly from the White House.
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Why do people keep spreading this? I'm a big supporter of Ukraine's actions to defend themselves, including their destruction of Yandex data centers, and I hope they can destroy actual bot farms. But unfortunately that didn't happen. the Yandex centers they destroyed were not bot farms and their destruction didn't have an effect on the Russia…
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Today's Starlink Word Games Up until a few days ago Ukraine used Starlink's high velocity Starshield service to defend their country. In the middle of the night, with no warning, during a Russian attack Starshield was cut off. People died. Starshield STILL has not been restored. Today they sent out Rubio to muddy the water. saying 'Ukraine DOES…
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Elon Musk is a loser. No matter how much power he has, he will always be a loser.
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He is a Elo bot as part of his big spending campaign before the midterms Basically he is trying to stir up shit and get someone who feels strongly enough to commit an act of terrorism and begin the hot version of the Civil War since they believe the left aren’t ready and are exploitable at this point They want to do so before the Dems take power…
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“…it was Musk who approached Trump with the idea of slowing down the Starlink systems in Ukraine, and Trump agreed. But…the outcry over Russia’s destructive attacks…made Musk worry that European customers might turn against him…” —Heather Cox Richardson, October 16, 2026 # trump # musk # starlink # ukraine # russia
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Is there a group of humanistic & well funded humans that could launch a competitor to Starlink so that = opportunity of data satellites could be achieved? Asking for Ukraine. Where have all the ethical rocket scientists gone. They’re out there. @buffet @gates @branson make this happen.
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agent krasnov and agent twotter are mad their bots went beep beep boop. now they go full russian asset because there is no need to pretend anymore that the US has been compromized with an installed oligarch marionette.
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Speed caps on # Starlink operations in # Ukraine remain in place Ukraine 1st experienced # Starshield malfunctions on Oct. 14. they lost connectivity approaching a certain speed Zelensky now confirmed speed limit of 161 km/hr remains in place With current speed cap, # Ukrainian # interceptor # drones can't down Russian jet-powered drones adding…
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It was dumb of Ukraine to put any trust in Musk in the first place. They haven’t been hiding their associations and alliances. It has all been in plain sight. Why we’ve played dumb for so long and let them advance in their authoritarian takeover of our beautiful democracy is baffling.
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They are both just trying to confuse public discourse, they were both responsible and could have resolved this within minutes if they wanted to. The US is controlled by Russia at this point.
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The Telegraph reported Friday that Musk "approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine," and both had a hand in imposing the restrictions. Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two U.S. officials, that the call to restrict Starlink in Ukraine came from the White House, but did not say who made the order. On Oct. 10…
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The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.”
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Telegraph, citing four sources familiar: "Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of restricting Starlink speeds for Ukrainian forces" Notably, Musk pointed to POTUS having final say but didn't actually deny involvement: "Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the U.S. government … Any limits on speed or usage are…
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No US person should have control over military resources. Imagine the implications if Musk decided to throttle US military access to Star Shield🤨 The next Congress has one more corruption scandal to investigate.
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⛔️🇺🇸Republican double-talk by Kremlin’s Cuban/American asset confirms Trump administration has sabotaged Ukraine’s StarShield defense system, in his attempt to confuse the issue (more) https://www. ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/ 4175635-rubio-says-ukraine-does-not-have-access-to-starshield.html # Ukraine # Press # Media # VOTE # VOTE2026 #…
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This is Beyond PATHETIC, TRAGIC, IMMORAL, CRIMINAL & THE NO GOOD NAZI MUST PAY FOR HIS CRIMINALITY/CRUELTY TO MANKIND‼️ God, I DETEST Everything about this DISGUSTING MONSTER‼️
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KYIV POST: Rubio: Ukraine Does Not Have Access to Starshield https://www. kyivpost.com/post/87400 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that Ukraine currently does not have access to the military-grade Starshield satellite network, noting Kyiv has requested the system for deep strikes inside Russia. Rubio firmly denied that the White…
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Send him to Mars already, or better yet, let him be the first person to "land" on the Sun 🥳🥳
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Despite Rubio's claims to the contrary, Ukraine has been using Starshield, the military version of Starlink, since Elon broke the commercial version with his one-sided restrictions in 2024. This use has been sponsored by Poland and Germany, two NATO countries. America is led by traitors, not allies. https://www. computerweekly.com/news/366652…
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And Congressional Democrats do... nothing. But at least they make sure to call it out and vociferously... um, never mind. Thank goodness we do have a fearless press that provides Americans with comprehensive reporting and holds government leaders to account and... oh goddamit.
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Watch Starshield Dispute Exposes US Ukraine Divide - Bloomberg https://www. bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026 -10-18/starshield-dispute-exposes-us-ukraine-divide-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Bloomberg Television @ bloomberg-television-bloomberg
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