While Musk has shifted stance on Ukraine many times since Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022, he has insisted that any disruption was the responsibility of the US Government, not SpaceX.<\/p>\n
Kyiv relies on the civilian Starlink satellite communications system and the military-grade Starshield version as it tries to defend itself from Russian missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cMonitoring systems are recording a recovery in the speed of Starlink\/Starshield. We are registering a speed of more than 400km\/h, the connection is stable,\u201d Defence Minister Yevgeniy Khmara said in a statement on Saturday (local time).<\/p>\n
\u201cThis result is above all important for our front, for our soldiers, for the operation of drones, for logistics and for communications,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, the speed is what we need. The restoration began during the night,\u201d he said on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is very important; it\u2019s significant for our frontline logistics, for protecting Ukraine\u201d from rocket-powered drones, he stressed.<\/p>\n
The satellite network has been at the centre of a row between Ukraine and the United States.<\/p>\n
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had accused Washington of helping Russia by failing to warn Kyiv of incoming missile strikes and hobbling its military response by throttling Starlink\u2019s speed.<\/p>\n
Khmara credited Zelenskyy\u2019s \u201cfirm stance\u201d on the issue, judging that it was \u201cbearing fruit\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Musk has shifted stance on Ukraine many times since Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022, he has insisted that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1117,123609,74,8239,149663,5432,38691,27254,25094,17448,14910,98669,17449,3805,111,139,69,1118,26859,1523,384,147,2552,392,314080,314079,19063,370,37454,39545,181896,3461,100172,3382,50638,2988],"class_list":["post-640635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-accused","tag-accuses","tag-after","tag-american","tag-armys","tag-between","tag-crucial","tag-disruptions","tag-drone","tag-elon","tag-kill","tag-kyiv","tag-musk","tag-network","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-operations","tag-over","tag-people","tag-science","tag-service","tag-space","tag-spacexmade","tag-starlinks","tag-strikes","tag-tech","tag-tension","tag-terms","tag-tycoon","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-using","tag-violating","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}