Streeting Says Ukraine Starlink Access Restored

UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured him that Ukraine’s access to Starlink had been restored after restrictions disrupted Ukrainian attack and air-defense drone missions. Streeting said the cause of the interruption was not discussed and that he would not speculate; he also said he had no understanding that the service was restricted to prevent strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. Reuters reported, citing unnamed US and Western officials, that the order to slow service to Ukraine’s military came from the White House, though they did not identify who made or carried it out. The outage added to tensions between Washington and Kyiv as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought support from European leaders, while Streeting said he hoped to help improve US-Ukraine relations.