{"id":810089,"date":"2026-10-22T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:56:10","slug":"trump-denies-ordering-starlink-slowdown-in-ukraine-says-he-doesnt-know-who-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810089\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denies ordering Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, says he doesn’t know who did"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday insisted he had nothing to do with a slowdown<\/a> of SpaceX<\/a>‘s Starlink in Ukraine and said he does not know if Elon Musk<\/a> was responsible for speed-capping the critical satellite service.<\/p>\n

Trump’s latest denial came one day after The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, citing unnamed U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter, reported Musk ordered the slowdown and discussed it with Trump.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t involved,” Trump told a reporter when asked about the decision as he departed the White House for a campaign rally in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

When pressed to answer if Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, ordered the slowdown, Trump said, “I don’t know who did it, but I was not involved.”<\/p>\n

The recent disruption of Starshield, the military-grade version of Starlink, rendered some Ukrainian drones effectively useless, weakening defenses against Russian attacks.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> on Monday said<\/a> his military still faces “speed restrictions on Starlink and Starshield services in different parts of the front.”<\/p>\n

“No explanation for either of these issues has been provided to Ukraine by the American side,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Journal reported Tuesday that Musk and Trump discussed the move to throttle Starlink “soon after” the change first became public last week, citing two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

One of the people who spoke with the news outlet claimed Musk discussed the matter with multiple senior administration officials, including Trump himself, prior to imposing the Starlink speed cap.<\/p>\n

Trump and Musk have both recently ramped up their criticism of Zelenskyy. But neither of them has yet identified who ordered the Starlink disruption.<\/p>\n

Musk said on X last week that Starshield systems are “owned and controlled by the US government” and that any speed or usage limits are “decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” <\/p>\n

Earlier Wednesday, Zelesnkyy said he and Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik “discussed in detail launching work on new satellite communication capabilities for our warriors.”<\/p>\n

“We will involve partners who have the capacity to provide support,” Zelenskyy said in an X post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday morning that he does not believe Musk would throttle Starlink without “at least the acquiescence of the White House.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted he had nothing to do with a slowdown of SpaceX‘s Starlink in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7795,3899,7796,273,140,4954,141,995,14992,1638,229,90,416,12990,86,56,157,54,158,55,160],"class_list":["post-810089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-defense","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-government-and-politics","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}