Elon Musk says "Starshield systems are owned and controlled" by U.S. government

Elon Musk said the Starshield network is under U.S. government authority, with the military and ultimately the president setting its limits, after satellite internet access was restricted in Ukraine during a Russian missile attack that killed at least nine people in Kyiv, according to Al Jazeera. He distinguished it from Starlink, which he said SpaceX runs commercially and restricts to non-offensive uses. Ukrainian officials suggested better intelligence could have prevented the strike; U.S. officials reportedly blamed bad weather for detection failures. The disruption occurred as President Donald Trump faced criticism from Volodymyr Zelenskiy over a diesel purchase deal with Vladimir Putin, and after the administration reportedly threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons deliveries unless Ukraine stopped striking Russian oil refineries.