Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday morning, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the United States of betraying Kyiv with a “dangerous” withdrawal of support critical to its defense against Russia.

Ukraine held off on attacks for three days after Donald Trump’s unilateral “energy ceasefire” announcement, but accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid. Zelenskyy voiced mounting frustration over the Kremlin’s failure to abide by the truce, and what he sees as U.S. attempts to pressure Kyiv after gaps in intelligence sharing on Russian attacks and restrictions on the Starlink internet service.

Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.

In an interview with the Financial Times, published Thursday, Zelenskyy indicated his patience had already been exhausted.

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[–] 44 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Understand one very important thing that's happening here: stopping Russia at this point in time benefits the entire planet.

They've been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.

Ukraine is simply able to push back.

Of course, the problem is that stopping Russia doesn't benefit a very small group of people, and that's evident by Trump's behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.

It's obvious that Zelensky is no longer playing ball with this nonsense of the 1% doing whatever the hell they want. Good for him. It's time to put these people in their place and take their money away from them.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Understand one very important thing that's happening here: stopping the USA at this point in time benefits the entire planet.

    They've been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.

    Ukraine is simply able to push back.

    Of course, the problem is that stopping the USA doesn't benefit a very small group of people, and that's evident by Trump's behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Sure, I’m not even going to disagree with you, except for the fact that we weren’t talking about the US in this post.

    As a matter of fact, I was admonishing the US and its decision to betray the Ukrainians.

    I will say this, however: regardless of how you feel about the US and your animosity toward it, Ukraine has been able to defend itself against Russia, in large part, because of the support it received from the United States.

    Russia is a threat not just to the US, but to the rest of the world as well.

    And as bad as the US really is, you’ll get no argument from me on that point, but we still have the capacity to do the right thing, at least to some degree. Keep in mind that this current administration is, in my opinion, the worst I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, and I’ve lived through quite a few presidents.

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  • [–] 165 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Good. Trump has been playing both sides and half assing this thing from the start. He clearly doesn’t have the balls to make Papa Putin do anything.

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    [–] 125 points 5 days ago (30 children)

    Remember when conservatives hated Russia until their programming was changed?

    No values beyond bigotry. No consistency beyond stupidity.

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  • [–] 51 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    Remember when a certain Fox News contributor who goes on TV saying we should be at war with Iran to prevent them from having missiles was charged with illegally selling missiles to Iran in trade for keeping Americans hostage until after the 1980 election?

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (15 children)

    Because Russia is no longer a communist country despised by conservatives, but a country larping as conservative that pay lip service to American conservatives to destabilise the West.

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    [–] 115 points 5 days ago* (17 children)

    Wtf is with this shit expecting Ukraine to treat Russia with kid gloves? They were invaded. As far as I'm concerned they could glass Moscow and I wouldn't give a shit. If we want Russia to be able to deliver oil we should be pressuring them to GTFO of Ukraine so Ukraine has no reason to defend themselves.

    Why even entertain any other resolution?

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  • [–] 52 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Because Trump expects some kind of deal out of Ukraine and Russia, that will lead to a new age of prosperity, and in turn, his immortality as a president forever remembered for making America great again. Or Putin has the pee tapes, featuring underage girls, as recorded by Jeffrey Epstein, on Saint Little James.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I know why Trump's doing it. Why everyone else though? This conflict is talked about as of it were a two way street when it was an aggressive act on the part of Russia.

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    [–] 54 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid

    I hate how journalists use “accused” for both factual statements and lies.

    This one can easily be defended by looking back 5days abcnews link

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    [–] 24 points 4 days ago

    Trump can fuck off straight to hell along with all his fucking Nazi followers.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago* (6 children)

    Carry on Ukraine. Fuck MAGA and their Russian masters. This proves, further, that the current US administration is completely unreliable and untrustworthy. I would not purchase US made weapon systems until the MAGA turds are gone.

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    [–] 33 points 4 days ago

    Slava Ukraini

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago

    Target more data centers please!

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  • [–] 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Thank you President Zelenskyy! I wish you the best of luck, skill and determination to shove that Russian fucker to a cell in Siberia.

    Thanks for the data center too. Know where any more are?

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  • [–] 24 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Wish we had a Zelenskyy in the white House and not the festering pile of orange shit we currently have.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    trump got mad and turned of starshield when the yandex datacenter got hit, which apparently was holding some of his financial accounts, like crypto in.

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    [–] 28 points 4 days ago (19 children)

    I wonder if Trump is the most hated person on the planet right now.

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    [–] 47 points 5 days ago

    Lemmy called it the moment Trump falsely claimed there was an energy infrastructure cease fire.

    (If other communities foresaw it I may just not be aware - I don't mean to say others didn't see the obvious, too)

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  • [–] 24 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    Anyone doing favors for Putin is a traitor to the West.

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    [–] 37 points 5 days ago

    Musk should be tried for the deaths he causes by playing those games.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    resumes strikes

    Did they actually stop? Trump made some noise about a pause, but I haven't seen any evidence of a break in the fighting.

    Zelenskyy voiced mounting frustration over the Kremlin’s failure to abide by the truce

    What truce? Nobody in Ukraine or Russia negotiated a truce. Russian diplomats simply told Trump that they couldn't ship gas until Ukraine backed down. And then Trump threw a hissy fit at his Ukrainian counterparts, because that's how Trump engages with an "ally" diplomatically.

    Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.

    It still boggles my mind that anyone in Ukraine can consider StarLink a reliable partner in this conflict. I have to wonder how many dead Ukrainians are attributable to sudden and unannounced suspensions of service by Elon Musk's premier global telecom.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago

    Starlink is super cheap compared to other means of communication, plus high bandwidth. Its not like there are no other options, but they have higher price tag and might be less reliable due to untested tech.

    Starlink is an advantage on the battlefield, would be stupid not to use it.

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    [–] 22 points 5 days ago (13 children)

    Can someone tell me why the right wing and the "independents"/reactionary centrists keep claiming that ties between donnie and Russia are a "hoax"?

    Most of the "liberal media" now seems to have that stance, pretending that butthurt rightwing claims of how mean the "liberal media" was to donnie back in 2016 over his Russian ties is a legit grievance of how the media went overboard, or "fell for" something, etc.?

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    [–] 15 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Starlink needs to be nationalised... Or .. Um.. UNised?

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    [–] 22 points 5 days ago

    I can only see a future where Ukraine weens off of American support and finds alternatives elsewhere in nations that not only are on significantly friendlier terms, but more reliable ones as well. It'll come to no surprise to me if other nations that buy from our contractors start to do less of that as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Good. And this time, don’t fucking stop until Putin is a distant memory.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I like when oil infrastructure explodes.

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