Kyiv: All Starshield Missions Failing Under Speed Cap, SpaceX Says Nothing Has Changed
A Ukrainian official says all Starshield missions were failing by the third day of the new speed cap. SpaceX says there has been no change.
On day 1724 of Russia's full-scale war, 14 November, a Ukrainian official said that by the third day of a new speed cap, every mission run over Ukraine's Starshield satellite links was failing. Starshield is a SpaceX satellite communications service used in Ukraine's military networks. SpaceX says "there has been no change".
A 161 km/h cap is back on Ukraine's Starshield links, nearly three weeks after Kyiv had full speed restored. The previous cap lasted ten days, and nobody in Washington would say who ordered it. Senior Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times they see the move as pressure during the peace talks. The US Department of Defense, the Pentagon, has yet to explain it.
Other developments of the day
Russian strikes on 13 November killed four Ukrainian civilians and injured more than 40, according to the source. Ukraine's grid operator kept all-day blackouts in parts of the country after Russia's latest attacks on the power system.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after meeting US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, that the largest prisoner-of-war exchange of the war is coming. Ukrainian negotiators pushed for calm at sea and a pause in strikes on power plants, but Moscow's team replied that it had no permission to discuss either.
Separately, the United Kingdom blacklisted the oil company Slavneft and says it now sanctions all ten of Russia's top oil producers. Moldova ratified a military cooperation agreement with Ukraine while Russian drones violate its airspace.
