without any advance warning from the US<\/a> for a second night. For years, the US has provided Ukraine with intelligence when strikes were about to take place.<\/p>\nTrump denied that his administration had cut intelligence sharing on Tuesday, but Zelenskyy said in an interview with US broadcaster NPR, aired on Wednesday, that military advisers had received threats from the US that intelligence sharing could be limited in the future.<\/p>\n
The US president has demanded that Ukraine stop striking Russian oil refineries, which he has blamed for the high cost of diesel, although most analysts say the closure of the strait of Hormuz after the US-Israel attack on Iran has had a far larger impact on global energy prices.<\/p>\n
Andy Burnham greeted Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, warmly at No 10. Photograph: Henry Nicholls\/Reuters<\/p>\n
The two leaders fell out in the spring of 2025 during a disastrous visit by Zelenskyy to the Oval Office, where the US president said: \u201cYou don\u2019t have the cards\u201d to win the war. The row was followed by a brief pause in intelligence sharing and a desperate scramble by European allies to calm the row.<\/p>\n
Burnham met Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Wednesday, hours after he promised MPs that the Ukrainian president \u201cwould not leave empty-handed\u201d and that he had tasked officials with drawing up further sanctions and options for speeding up military aid.<\/p>\n
As the pair met at No 10, he promised that Britain\u2019s support for Ukraine would remain constant. \u201cYou have seen the solidarity and the support you have got from everybody here in Britain. We are behind you and that will not change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy had met King Charles in Buckingham Palace earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In brief remarks to reporters, Zelenskyy said he hoped to raise access to Starlink and intelligence sharing in his meeting with the British prime minister.<\/p>\n
Burnham pledged that he would accelerate the supply of British lightweight multi-role missiles to Ukraine, which the country uses to counter Russian drone strikes and said they were looking for \u201call possible avenues\u201d of further support.<\/p>\n
The prime minister also said he was prepared to discuss the ceasefire proposed by Trump on attacks on energy infrastructure but acknowledged that Moscow had not abided by it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, what we have seen from Russia is further attacks on critical national infrastructure in Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier Burnham told MPs at PMQs that he wanted to be \u201ccareful\u201d about potential criticism of Trump that might risk exacerbating tensions, saying he was \u201claying the ground\u201d for a reconciliation: \u201cI will listen to President Zelenskyy carefully, but he won\u2019t be going away from Britain today empty-handed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting, which lasted just over an hour, began as Burnham greeted Zelenskyy with a hug on Downing Street, before the pair walked to the door of No 10 and posed for photographs, flanked by Irish Guards in full ceremonial uniform.<\/p>\n
Musk said the decision to curtail Starlink was not one made by him. The communications system is not directly licensed to clients who are using weapons, and the Ukrainian military was linked to a related network called Starshield, which is operated by the US government.<\/p>\n
\u201cStarshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS,\u201d Musk said, referring to Trump.<\/p>\n
Terminals travelling at more than 100mph and using a version of Starlink for the military and other national security agencies suddenly lost connectivity, said Serhiy Beskrestnov, an adviser on military technology to Zelenskyy, in what appeared to be a targeted outage meant to disrupt military operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur armed forces did not receive a warning about these restrictions and this led to the failure of a number of missions,\u201d said Beskrestnov, who is also a popular military blogger. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is connected to the current political situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Limiting Starlink\u2019s access speeds would have a significant effect on Ukraine\u2019s air defences because it is being used, according to Beskrestnov, in \u201cthe most current effective solution\u201d: interceptors that target the jet-powered Shahed drones now deployed in large numbers to bomb Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith their actions, our partners are depriving us of one of the few chances we have to defend ourselves,\u201d he added in a follow-up post. Shahed interception rates had already dropped from more than 90% to about 60% when Russia upgraded its engines to jet power in the early summer.<\/p>\n
It also complicates Ukraine\u2019s use of medium-range, mid-strike drones for hitting targets in its territories occupied by Russia. But, ironically, it would have no impact on Ukraine\u2019s deep strike bombing of oil refineries because Kyiv is banned from using Starlink to hit targets inside of Russia.<\/p>\n
Russia carried out a massive strike against Ukrainian energy infrastructure late on Tuesday evening, Zelenskyy said, launching 39 ballistic missiles and 120 attack drones against Kyiv and Kharkiv. The strikes hit five big power plants, key substations and other infrastructure that sustains major cities including Kyiv.<\/p>\n
At least 600,000 people were now without power, he said, adding that outages could become more widespread.<\/p>\n
Trump last week announced an \u201cenergy ceasefire\u201d between Russia and Ukraine that has not been confirmed. Zelenskyy said he had not heard of the deal until Trump announced it on his Truth Social site, and the Kremlin on Wednesday claimed it was abiding by the ceasefire because Trump had not specified which energy infrastructure it included.<\/p>\n
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin\u2019s spokesperson, told reporters: \u201cThe energy truce proposed by Trump was not specified in detail, so it cannot be claimed that Russia is failing to observe it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine\u2019s military has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-928343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}