Ukraine war latest: Starshield speed restrictions return, Zelensky says
- Newsrooms
- 19
- Last 3 hours
- 6 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
2 in the 3 before
Accelerating
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Slowing. Likely 20 to 23 newsrooms by 11:54am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 4175 stories, and number 37 of 1916 in News.
1US envoys left Moscow for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after meeting with President Vladimir Putin, as Kyiv warned restrictions had reappeared on the Starshield air-defense system used by frontline troops.
The Kyiv Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is Bloomberg’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Starlink in the Russo-Ukrainian war
In February 2022, SpaceX activated their Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, to replace internet and communication networks degraded or destroyed during the war. Starlink provides critical service to Ukrainian civilians, government and military. It has aided humanitarian relief as well as defense and counterattacks on Russian positions.4
The story so far
19 newsrooms- Reports
- 25
- Newsrooms and sources
- 19
- Last 3 hours
- 6
Accelerating: reports are coming in at least twice as fast as three hours before (6 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: Kyiv Post, 3 hr 6 min before anyone else.
Reported by 19 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: CNA and The Straits Times (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from



