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Ukraine regains full Starlink access for drones after more than a week of slowdown, a day after Burnham pushed Trump

Steve Witkoff (right), the top Trump aide, with Vladimir Putin, as a Kremlin aide said a new round of three-way peace talks could be held around 10 November in Abu Dhabi.
Steve Witkoff (right), the top Trump aide, with Vladimir Putin, as a Kremlin aide said a new round of three-way peace talks could be held around 10 November in Abu Dhabi.

Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said Saturday that monitoring now shows stable links on kit moving faster than 400kph. Front-line commanders had reported lost drones and wrecked missions under the curbs on Starshield, the military-grade service. Only on Friday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the limits were still biting. Nobody has said who ordered the throttling: Elon Musk points at the White House, while it is reportedly Musk himself who did it.

Senators from both parties threatened to block Trump's nominees until Ukraine's access was restored.

Former officials say successive US administrations asked Musk for years to switch Starlink on or off.

Marco Rubio had insisted: 'We cannot direct a private company as to the decisions they make.'

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