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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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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Bulgaria's prime minister points to Russia for Black Sea ship strikes but cannot prove it
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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Hamburg's Hanseatic Higher Regional Court opened the Nord Stream trial of a former Ukrainian officer on Wednesday, with 16 dates set through Dec. 17. The dock holds one man. Ukrainian state involvement is a line investigators have examined and President Zelenskyy has denied.
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A 100mph Starlink cutoff leaves most of Ukraine's behind-the-lines strike drones inoperable
Ukraine's military says Starlink stopped working on terminals moving faster than 100mph on Tuesday night. Elon Musk says the US government set the limit, and the White House has not confirmed or denied it.
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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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Trump's envoys told Kyiv on Oct 9 that a Russian diesel deal of more than 2.25 million barrels is meant to restart three-way talks, Reuters reported. A person close to the Kremlin said Putin returns only after taking the last 11% of Donbas.
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Six senators from both parties urged Trump to reverse his deal with Putin to import Russian diesel ahead of the midterms. Fortune reported that energy experts doubt the diesel will lower US pump prices.
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Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's former defense minister, unveiled an interceptor aimed at the Geran-5 jet drone and targets hundreds a month by year-end. The version that exists today is flown by a human pilot, with AI autonomy planned.
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Hamburg court opens trial of a former Ukrainian officer over the Nord Stream blasts
Germany's Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg opens the trial of a former Ukrainian army officer over the Sept. 26, 2022 Nord Stream blasts. The charges name one defendant, though the wire report on ABC News notes increasing suggestions of Ukrainian state involvement.
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Zelenskyy said Russia struck a Kharkiv power plant and a gas production facility after Trump announced an energy ceasefire. The Kremlin has not confirmed the deal. Until it does, any lower oil and gas cost rests on an unconfirmed announcement.
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Yandex lost one of its five data centers on Thursday after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan region. Running workloads moved to its other sites, but the company warned that creating new cloud resources may be limited.
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Russia's jet-powered drones make speed the test for the next generation of interceptors
Ukraine downed just 55% of Russia's jet-powered drones in September, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, against the 90%-plus rate officials cite for propeller drones. Western armies and defence firms have so far answered with faster interceptor designs, and buyers now face a choice between speed and volume.
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Ukraine's Air Force says turrets aimed by AI and machine vision have shot down the Geran-5, the fastest attack drone in Russia's fleet. Kyiv is putting some of the short-range guns on bridges that Russian drones struck repeatedly in the past week, to guard individual structures.
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A cruise missile hit on the Progress Rocket Space Center targets where Soyuz vehicles are built, not where they fly. Roscosmos was already short of rockets before the strike.
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Russia fired 267 drones and at least two missiles overnight. But the 37 dead in Myla came from ammunition detonating in a chain reaction beside dozens of homes. Ukrainian prosecutors are now asking who approved the storage.
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The strongest thing to come out of Witkoff and Kushner's three hours with Putin was 72 hours of quiet over two city limits, which is thin material for anyone pricing an end to a war that has run more than four and a half years.
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Speaking to reporters at a BRICS summit in India, Putin said European troops in Ukraine would mean war with Russia while denying that his country threatens Europe. Lavrov said Saturday that the fighting continues through any talks.
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The request would have Ukraine give up the one pressure point on Moscow it operates without American help. Zelenskyy's answer is a mutual energy ceasefire that would also cover Russian strikes on Ukraine's grid.
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