'US fully resumes missile warnings for Ukraine'

RTHK - Oct 25, 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said US warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes, critical to Ukraine's air defences, had been fully restored after recent issues. Speaking to Ukraine's TSN television channel, he said SpaceX's Starshield satellite internet had been working at speeds of up to 420 kilometres per hour since early on Saturday morning, after it had been throttled earlier in October amid diplomatic pressure on Kyiv from Washington. Zelensky said he discussed both issues in a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo, casting the changes as results of that meeting. The US has pressed Ukraine to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries, which it argues added to high energy prices, a sensitive issue for the Trump administration amid its war on Iran and US midterm elections next month. Zelensky said that in order for Kyiv to halt the strikes, Moscow must stop hitting Ukraine's power infrastructure, or the US should allow the use of Starshield over Russia to detect launch places of its ballistic missiles, or supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles. Speaking about the upcoming technical talks between Kyiv, Moscow and Washington in November, Zelensky said Ukraine would not discuss limits to its armed forces, or enforced post-war neutrality. Kyiv has...

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