Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump says his administration had nothing to do with the recent slowdown of a satellite system that Ukraine depends on in its war with Russia. Ukrainian officials are not convinced, and the dispute has deepened the mistrust between Kyiv and Washington.
\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Friday, Trump said he had looked into it that morning. “It wasn’t us,” he said. He added that he did not know if anyone had been responsible, since “it wasn’t me and I don’t think it was Elon.”
\n\nHe was answering a question about a Reuters report claiming that the order to slow the system came from inside the White House. The system is owned by Elon Musk’s company.
\n\nMusk himself pointed toward Washington earlier in the week. In a post on X on Wednesday, he wrote that Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the U.S. government, and that any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately the president.
\n\nThe country relies on two separate systems:
\n\nZelensky, in a post on X today, wrote – "We don’t use Starlink for our responses inside Russia. We use Starlink…
Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/world
