Ukraine regains Starlink speeds after week of battlefield limits
What's new: Elon Musk acknowledged SpaceX imposed the throttling, while Kyiv says restored service is helping drone logistics and air defense.
Ukraine said Starlink and Starshield speeds were restored Saturday after more than a week of restrictions that disrupted front-line operations and some drone missions. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that service returned overnight and was back to needed levels by morning. Elon Musk later wrote on X that SpaceX had throttled Starlink, arguing a civilian commercial service should not be used for offensive drone strikes. Ukraine had said the slowdown hurt logistics and defenses against Shahed drones, and officials reported lost drones during the outage. The episode deepened strains between Kyiv and Washington as questions persisted over who ordered the limits on the military-grade Starshield system.