Ukraine says it cannot stop Russian strikes due to limited Starshield access
Tech Desk
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the 9th European Political Community Summit in Ireland that the Starshield system has again been disabled for fast‑moving drones over Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russian forces, with the speed cap restored to 161 kilometres per hour.
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He said the United States has supplied only very little information about the return of the restriction. "We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory again, in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine," Zelenskyy said in his speech. "The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour—that’s 100 miles per hour." Starshield, the military variant of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, stops working on Ukrainian military drones when they travel above that speed.
