Trump claims neither he nor Musk caused Ukraine Starlink outage

The Hill·October 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM+4

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President Trump claimed on Friday that neither he nor SpaceX founder Elon Musk caused Ukraine’s Starlink outage earlier this week as the president clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries. “I didn’t do that. No, we didn’t do that at all. In fact, I don’t even think it was...

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