Starlink Disruptions and Ukraine’s Request for Starshield

On Star- on Starshield, what's going on?

Because, uh, Elon Musk said it's up to the president.

Well, Starshield or Starlink? Well, just both.

Well, yeah, I know it's confusing depen-- so Starlink is a commercial product, okay? And, um, and, and so you al- they, they... it's regulated and handled as a commercial product.

Starshield is a defense product, a military product.

And, um, as I said, I mean, that, that is something that, uh, that we have a c- the military, United States military uses.

It's not at this moment available to Ukraine, and that's under conversation.

I mean, it's under discussion right now of how, how they would wanna use it.

No, but did the US, did the US have anything to do with it not working in Ukraine at the moment? Zelenskyy said it was- No ... deliberate.

Well, I don't know what Zelenskyy said. I'm not sure Zelenskyy knows what he's talking about, but it wasn't deliberate.

Uh, we had nothing to do with it. I don't, I don't...

The United States, nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down.

It sorta happened. Um, but I, my understanding is it's been restored.

It's back to where it was before, so. Sure.

That's Starlink, though. They were using Starlink for their drones.

Has Starshield been restored? Starshield is a totally different product.

Starshield is a- I mean, has, has it- No, no. Starshield is a contract with the US military.

It has nothing to do with Ukraine. I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield.

They do not have Starshield now. They've asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia.

They do not have access to it at this moment.

But- Those are two different products. But, but do you have a theory as to why, obviously, Ukraine has reported disruptions?

Yeah, I don't know what their theory is, but it wa- nothing to do with the White House. I saw a report on that the other day. It's just ab- categorically false.

No one at the White House ordered anyone to slow down internet or slow down speed so that certain drones couldn't use it, but my understanding is it's back up and running. That's what I read. You know, that's what we heard two days ago.