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.
Anyone doing favors for Putin is a traitor to the West.
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?
Wish we had a Zelenskyy in the white House and not the festering pile of orange shit we currently have.
hopefully europe will provide what the orange TRAITOR took away
Starlink needs to be nationalised… Or … Um… UNised?
It’s kind of going on the reverse. The US is kind of being subsumed into Musk Inc.
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?
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.
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.
maga is literally grifters of americans united inc. they’re all grifting as much as they can and trump is their literal face on the camera.
Strategically, glassing a city wouldn’t solve anything. That just makes the people who are left want to fight harder.
Infrastructure and decapitation strikes are more effective at getting populations to stop fighting, especially when that infrastructure includes the propaganda machine.
I wasn’t speaking in terms of strategy. My point was outside observers expecting a nation that’s defending themselves to hold back in any way is absurd.
Isn’t there quite a lot of infrastructure and leadership in Moscow?
Yes, but surgical strikes that leave the population alive are more effective.
Bomb the people into submission was a plan cooked up after the first world war, and was pretty stupid then as well.
The firebombing of Germany, Japan, the UK, etc. didn’t make the population less willing to fight, quite the opposite, but the defeat of a countries military, did in fact make the populations surrender.
Populations will put up with a lot when under constant attack, when their loved ones are dying in the street, but when they’re merely inconvenienced, and then their team loses, well, that breaks moral.
Also, decapitation works wonders, take out the leaders who are pushing for more war, and suddenly there’s no push for more war.
Remember when conservatives hated Russia until their programming was changed?
No values beyond bigotry. No consistency beyond stupidity.
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?
Technically he did the treason first, and then got hired by Fox to justify his treason.
We should probably tell the whole story. Not to justify his actions, but he did the treason because the President told him to.
It was like a fucking light switch.
Because they’re immoral. They’re lesser men.
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.
Conservatism is and always has been an attempt to return to a form of feudalism, with the rich being the new nobility and everyone else being powerless to resist. In that regard, Russia with its oligarchs is about as conservative as it comes.
Beware of the media you consume, it exists to shape you. Including this comment.
I don’t remember that, no.
Musk should be tried for the deaths he causes by playing those games.
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.
He’s not playing both sides, he has clear preference. He just doesn’t have the card’s.
He’s helping Putin quite a bit because they’re allies. Not playing both sides, just play pretend.
Employees usually don’t make demands of their employers. The instructions only flow from Russia to the GOPedos
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)
I guess Ukraine figured out how to cheese SpaceX’s shitty grok customer service AI bot.
I hope putin stops this violence and suffering. If not I hope Ukraine and trusted allies can get drones and whatever they need to eliminate key equipment and creative tactics they come up with to push putin out. I want all casualties to stop in this and everywhere. The violence comes from egoic pride, revenge, dualism, supernatural excuses and other unhealthy indoctrinated ways that can be stopped, and are chosen as adults. Stop letting ego and the pain body of revenge cause all this suffering as Tolle teaches. Be excellent to each other!
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.
What truce? Nobody in Ukraine or Russia negotiated a truce.
Zelinsky has to walk a delicate line. He knows that Trump is a lying blowhard who can’t be trusted, but he also has to make sure he maintains international support.
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.
Sadly the Ukrainians have no choice. They don’t have any other similar service they can rely on, unless they or the EU build something similar.
I am also surprised by that wording. I assume Zelenskyy sinply employs the same “technique” as Trump: just matter-of-factly state something to fit the narrative for your goals and blame everyone else for being incompetent dumbfucks or liars.
In the end it’s all a bit “he said she said” anyway.
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.?
because they’re really grateful that by electing trump they can use slurs again, that’s literally all it is.
If “Liberal Media” doesn’t oppose Trump and Russia then it isn’t Liberal. Factual reporting has revealed Trump Russia ties since the Meuller investigation sentenced his campaign team.
Hence the scare quotes. I’ve been told all my life that the corporate media like ABC, CBS, NBC are sooper-dooper liberal and that’s why the poor little aggrieved right wing were forced to construct their own alternative media universe, since the liberals were so extreme and just so mean to conservatives. I mean those nasty liberals, reporting the truth about Nixon, were the reason Nixon resigned and that was all just so unfair.
Because they’re idiots.
Because they’re bought and paid for
Why did you repeat right-wing three times, just spelled differently?
Mostly because the Steele dossier was debunked if I recall correctly. His financial ties to a bunch of Russian oligarchs is definitely real though
The Steele dossier was a collection of raw intelligence reports. Minor details were proven wrong, such as Trump spending the night in a hotel but not in the presidential suite like the report claimed. Otherwise, multiple people claimed they could prove they hadn’t done what was claimed but failed to do so or were later proved to have indeed done the things.
Nearly all of the claims have been proven broadly true by subsequent investigations.
It linked multiple members of his campaign to elements in and around the Russian government. Communication records later proved that contact has indeed taken place.
It claimed Russians had dirt on Trump from a pageant he hosted there. While no blackmail material has come out, one of the Russian contacts the campaign communicated with told them he had buried some for them.
The dossier claimed a Romanian hacking group operating at the direction of the Russian government was behind the Clinton leaks. It was later proven that it had been done by a Russian group pretending to be Romanian.
It was claimed that WikiLeaks was directly coordinating with both the Trump campaign and Russia to inflict maximum damage on Clinton and steer people toward Trump. Emails later came out that proved this.
These are just a handful of the verified claims.
This was my understanding as well. I have no idea why the narrative that it was “debunked” is one that seems to prevalent now.
Relying on the so-called “liberal media” for certain details, most especially the Russian-donnie collusion, can make one feel like they are taking crazy pills.
It gets even worse if one still takes someone like Taibbi into account, too. JFC, what happened to him, anyway? Did Russia get something on him while he was staying there?
Two main issues:
- The Mueller report substantiated many pieces of Steele’s dossier, but the false summary the Attorney General released first claimed the opposite. This muddied reporting at the point where it should have been clear whether claims were true or false.
- The story basically ended with the Mueller report. Since then, it only appears in headlines when Trump goes on a rant about the “Russia Hoax.” That means there are headlines quoting him every couple months saying that it was false. The articles say he’s lying, but the repeated headlines are what people see and remember.
Ah, damn I guess I fell for it. Thanks for setting me straight
Debunked?
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.
