KyivUkraine received no US missile warnings for 3 days, Zelenskyy says.
Zelenskyy says the 161 km/h Starlink cap applies only in Ukraine and stops interceptors downing jet-powered drones.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the claim of a deliberate US restriction reckless and said he knew nothing about the slowdown.
Rubio says no one at the White House ordered a slowdown and Ukraine has no Starshield access.
Zelenskyy hopes to meet US officials on 20 or 21 October.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- The New York Times
- foregrounds the Ukrainian complaint that Pentagon and SpaceX have not answered inquiries about Starlink disruptions, tying the Starlink dispute to the St. Petersburg strike
- Al Jazeera Online
- quotes Rubio separating commercial Starlink from military Starshield and confirming Kyiv's deep-strike access request is "under discussion"
- Українська правда leans critical
- frames Bessent's "very reckless" rebuke of Zelenskyy as a direct contradiction of Trump's and Rubio's denials, quoting his "I don't know anything about that"
- TimesNow
- reports Rubio's claim that the Starlink speed was restored and his doubt that Zelenskyy knows what he is talking about
- The Kyiv Independent leans critical
- builds a multi-front rundown of Oct. 17-18 events, including the Ozon logistics hit and the VK data center outage that users saw on Downdetector
Sources: The New York Times, Українська правда, The Kyiv Independent, Al Jazeera Online, TimesNow