According to the president of Ukraine, the US stopped sharing intelligence for a period. Now sharing has resumed.
After a break According to the Ukrainian president, the US has again started sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
– It was blocked for a period. After that, the blockade was lifted from the American side. We are very grateful for that. Now it works, says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with NBC, according to AFP.
Without US intelligence, Ukraine is more vulnerable to ballistic missiles from Russia.
NBC News writes that for several days the United States has not shared intelligence with Ukraine about Russian missiles headed for Ukraine.
On Tuesday evening, Zelensky wrote on X that a cogeneration plant in the capital, Kyiv, had been hit by a ballistic missile from Russia.
According to the president, the attack had taken place without prior warning from Ukraine’s allies.
According to AFP, Ukraine is largely dependent on intelligence from Western countries – and especially the United States – in order to detect impending attacks.
Continued restrictions on Starshield
Zelenskyy says, according to NBC News, that there is still a speed limit on Ukraine’s use of Starshield, which is the military version of the Starlink satellite service.
Ukraine uses the satellite system for communications and drone operations on the battlefield.
It is the American rich man Elon Musk, who is behind Starlink and Starshield.
In the interview, Zelenskyj is asked if he thinks that Donald Trump or Elon Musk is behind the decision to limit the service.
According to NBC, the president replied that he did not know, but that he believed that both had been involved.
Trump has previously denied being the reason for restrictions on Starshield.
The news agency Reuters has written, based on two American officials and a Western official with knowledge of the matter, that the order to restrict the system came from within the White House.
Ukrainian officials said earlier this week that Starlink receivers had stopped working in Ukraine when they were mounted on fast-moving objects. It disrupted the performance of Ukrainian drones, it said.
Relations between the United States and Ukraine are tense at the moment. Trump has called for a new Ukrainian president, while Ukraine has criticized a diesel deal between the US and Russia.
