{"id":443249,"date":"2026-02-01T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443249\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:04:09","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-blocks-russia-unauthorized-starlink-use-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443249\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says SpaceX blocks Russia unauthorized Starlink use in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former U.S. special rep. for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the Russia-Ukraine war and more.<\/p>\n

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk<\/a> says his company appears to have been successful in blocking Russia from making “unauthorized” use of Starlink internet systems in Ukraine on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Starlink units have supported Ukrainian forces throughout the invasion, but Russian forces have also captured many of the units as a result. Musk’s company had been working to block Russian forces from utilizing the captured devices, and Ukrainian officials now say they are working to prevent Russian access long term.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Kyiv was developing a system that would allow only authorized Starlink terminals to work on Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n

“Ukraine, together with Starlink, has already taken the first steps that delivered rapid results in countering Russian drones<\/a>,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

TRUMP TOUTS ‘TREMENDOUS PROGRESS’ BUT SAYS HE’LL MEET PUTIN AND ZELENSKYY ‘ONLY WHEN’ PEACE DEAL IS FINAL<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elon Musk says SpaceX has been successful in locking out Russia from Starlink. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“The next step is implementing a system that will allow only authorized terminals to operate on the territory of Ukraine<\/a>,” he added.<\/p>\n

He confirmed reports that Ukraine had witnessed Russian drones operating over Ukrainian cities via Starlink connectivity. Officials immediately reached out to SpaceX for solutions, and Fedorov thanked Musk in a separate statement.<\/p>\n

“Looks like the steps we took to stop the unauthorized use of Starlink by Russia have worked. Let us know if more needs to be done,” Musk replied on X.<\/p>\n

US OFFICIALS TOUT PROGRESS IN TALKS TO REACH ‘LASTING AND DURABLE PEACE’ BETWEEN UKRAINE, RUSSIA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ukrainian forces have used Starlink connectivity throughout Russia’s invasion. (Budrul Chukrut\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Starlink battle comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> announced Sunday that a new round of peace talks will take place this week. Representatives for Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. will be in attendance.<\/p>\n

“Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,” Zelenskyy wrote.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doubts Russia’s sincerity in peace talks. (Timothy A. Clara\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said Thursday that key obstacles to a peace agreement<\/a> remain unresolved, including the future of occupied Ukrainian territory and Moscow\u2019s demands for land it has not captured.<\/p>\n

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“I do not believe that Russia wants to end the war. There is a great deal of evidence to the contrary,” Zelenskyy said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. special rep. for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss President Donald Trump’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-443249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}