Financial Times: Ukrainian Forces Caught Off Guard as Restrictions on Elon Musk's Starlink Disrupt Military Operations / Some Ukrainian officials speculate Musk imposed the restrictions at the Trump administration's request

Ukrainian Forces Caught Off Guard as Restrictions on Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Disrupt Operations on the Front Line. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials say Kyiv has received no advance warning from its partners ahead of Russia's missile attack on the country's energy facilities for the second consecutive day.

The Financial Times wrote: Ukrainian forces have been surprised; Restrictions on Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet systems have disrupted operations on the front lines. At the same time, Ukrainian officials say that for the second day in a row, Kiev did not receive any advance warning from its partners before the Russian missile attack on the country's energy facilities.

According to the selection report, according to the Ukrainian military and senior officials, the Starlink terminals used by the Ukrainian drone units, from early Wednesday morning and when moving at a speed of more than 160 kilometers per hour, faced a signal reception disorder; An issue that disrupted several missions.

A senior Ukrainian official with knowledge of the situation on the front told the Financial Times: "Logistics operations on the front line and attacks deep in the middle of [Russian-controlled territory] have been severely curtailed."

Mid-depth attacks refer to Ukrainian operations against Russian military supply lines and logistics networks.

The Ukrainian official said the restrictions were imposed "without any prior warning and right in the middle of the night."

Sergei Beskrestenov, an adviser to Ukraine's Defense Ministry, said long-range drone operations were also affected by the restrictions. He wrote in Telegram: "It is clear that this action is not accidental and is related to the current political situation."

The Starlink disruption comes as Kiev faces escalating Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure and increasing pressure from US President Donald Trump to force Ukraine to make concessions to Moscow aimed at ending the war.

Ukrainian rescuers, wearing helmets, search a heavily damaged residential building at night; Debris from the missile attack is scattered around the building.

Since last week, Trump has increased pressure on Ukraine to stop its drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. He has also threatened to cut off critical information sharing with Ukraine.

Trump is angry with the increase in the global price of diesel and blames Ukraine for it; However, analysts have said that this price increase is mainly due to the US war with Iran.

The lack of advance warning of Russian missile attacks, along with the unexpected restrictions imposed on Starlink terminals, have raised concerns in Kiev about the reliability of US support; That too in a situation where Trump had previously made threats against this support.

On Wednesday, Trump denied that Washington had stopped sharing information with Ukraine. "No, we haven't," he said. We help them. We are helping them and sharing information with them. We want the war to end."

Some Ukrainian officials have speculated that SpaceX, the operator of Starlink, which has thousands of terminals in Ukraine at the disposal of the military and civilians, imposed these restrictions at the request of the Trump administration; The speculation comes after Musk released messages this week criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Zelensky has gone too far," Musk wrote in a post on the X social network in response to a White House video in which Trump allegedly told Zelensky "you can do whatever you want with Russia, but don't attack the refineries, because this is a global issue."

Trump said in the same video: "And what does he do? It goes and attacks diesel fuel. "He better stop the damn thing."

One of the advisers of the Ukrainian presidency said that the country's military officials are trying to solve the problem through the coordination center in Wiesbaden, Germany. This center is the main place of communication and military coordination of Ukraine with its western partners.

The White House, SpaceX and Elon Musk did not respond to requests for comment by 10 a.m. Kyiv time.

Zelensky, who arrived in London on Wednesday morning and was scheduled to meet with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, said on the eve of his trip that Ukraine "once again" received "no early warning from its partners" before Russian ballistic missiles attacked the capital's energy infrastructure. These facilities included one of the main power plants for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat in the city of Kiev.

"Our systems detected these missiles only when they were practically on the verge of reaching Kiev," he said.

Zelensky announced that Russian forces used 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones against Ukraine's energy infrastructure and critical infrastructure during the night and into the morning. Infrastructures that, according to him, "are exactly the infrastructures that the ceasefire announced by the American president was supposed to cover."

The attacks mainly targeted Kyiv and Kharkiv. The Ukrainian Air Force announced that only four missiles were intercepted.

Zelensky said that as a result of this attack, there was "significant damage" to the facilities and equipment of 26 complexes in the Ukrainian electricity grid and four complexes in the oil and gas sector.

On Wednesday morning, at least 600,000 people in Ukraine were facing power outages. Kyiv authorities announced that at least two people were killed and more than 20 people were injured in this attack.

Zelensky said: "This attack was completely deliberate and its scale was very dramatic and obvious. "Russia has never shown such blatant and widespread disregard for the United States."

He asked Washington to respond to these attacks and said it is important for America to "understand who is responsible for the continuation of this war". Zelensky also called on Ukraine's partners to impose tougher sanctions against Moscow.

He added: "Ukraine supported the ceasefire in the field of energy. "Russia is once again targeting a power plant and endangering the lives of our people."