Ukraine War: Ukraine: Starlink is running again - Musk complains about abuse

Kyiv/Washington. After days of complaints about throttling of satellite internet, Ukraine can again access the US systems Starlink and Starshield to defend against Russia's war of aggression.

"Starlink and Starshield are working again at the speed that existed before all these restrictions. Now the speed is what we need," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“This is crucial for our front-line logistics and for protecting Ukraine from missile attacks.”

Defense Minister Yevhenij Khmara had previously announced that the system was running again.

“We measure a speed of over 400 km/h, the connection is stable,” said the minister.

At the same time, Kiev contradicted allegations made by US tech billionaire Elon Musk, who complained about misuse of Starlink for offensive operations by the Ukrainian military.

Zelensky's defense technology adviser, Serhiy Beskrestnov, nicknamed "Flash," said Ukraine was physically unable to use Starlink for attacks.

“It’s strange that Elon Musk doesn’t know about Starlink’s restrictions in Ukraine,” he wrote on Facebook.

SpaceX founder Musk had criticized Platform

He did not provide any specific evidence or cases or time periods.

He further wrote that this gap had been closed last week.

The Starlink satellite internet belongs to the space company SpaceX.

According to Musk, it will be used as a commercial service only for civil and defense purposes, but not for military offensives.

Starshield is the military offshoot and, according to Musk, is controlled by the US government.

In recent days, Ukraine has complained that US satellite internet has been throttled.

It is unclear who exactly was responsible for throttling the system.

Musk emphasized in his post that Starlink remains crucial to Ukraine's defense.

“If Starlink were switched off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately.”

This is “NOT” a threat, rather a statement.

After the Starlink connection was restored, Zelensky thanked the USA, but again emphatically demanded the delivery of promised anti-aircraft missiles.

“There are delivery packages that we are still waiting for,” Zelensky said in a video message.

"These include packages from the USA as well as from our European partners. Delivery packages for which political decisions have already been made."

Selenskyj had recently complained several times that promised and paid for missiles were not being delivered by the USA.

According to its own statements, Ukraine primarily needs anti-aircraft missiles for the Patriot systems in order to protect itself from Russian attacks with ballistic missiles.

Zelensky said on Telegram that Russia was bringing death and destruction to the country almost every day.

He again reported deaths and injuries.

Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian war of aggression with Western help for more than four and a half years.

After Ukrainian counterattacks, Russian authorities also reported deaths, injuries and damage.