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Zelensky confirms Ukraine's Starshield access is back at full speed

CNN's short report links the restoration to a phone call in which, according to CNN's reporting, President Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service.

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Ukrainian President Zelensky confirms access to Starshield has been restored

Volodymyr Zelensky delivered the update himself, in a video recorded outdoors: Ukraine's access to Starlink and Starshield is back to the speeds it had before the restrictions. Speaking in Ukrainian, he says the service matters for the army's frontline logistics and for defending the country against Shahed drones.

Starshield is the military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet. According to CNN's report, the speed limits had slowed Ukrainian military operations for about a week, disrupting logistics and the interceptor drones Ukraine uses against incoming attacks. Ukraine's defense ministry announced on Saturday that full access had been restored.

The report then turns to how that happened. Citing CNN's own reporting, it says President Trump asked Musk during a phone call to restore Ukraine's Starshield access. Archive images of the two men accompany that part of the report.

The report closes with Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara. He says the ministry continues to monitor and document how the system performs, a sign that Kyiv is still watching the service after the restoration.

The clip runs less than a minute and drew about 205,000 views in its first eight hours. Much of the discussion beneath it is not about the restored speed. Many commenters ask how much power a private company, or one person, should hold over a country's wartime communications.

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