No warning, capped Starlink, unsigned Patriots: Zelenskyy lists US holds to senators as Kyiv reads them as pressure
He said he offered US envoys a 30-day pause on refinery strikes in exchange for Patriots. A US official disputed Kyiv’s account of the Patriot hold.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told US senators on 19 October that his country received no early warning of the first wave of Russian ballistic missiles on the night of 18-19 October. He also noted that Starlink and Starshield terminals still failed to function at high speeds in certain areas, and that Washington had explained neither issue.
Zelenskyy added that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had not approved the delivery of Patriot interceptors and AIM-9X missiles for NASAMS, despite NATO countries having already paid for them. As the US pressures Kyiv to stop striking Russian oil refineries, which Trump has criticized for driving up fuel prices in the US, Zelenskyy claims that both early warning systems and interceptors are now failing simultaneously.
With Russia continuing to fire ballistic missiles at Ukraine ahead of winter, the absence of warnings and interceptors would leave Ukrainian cities with less notice and fewer means to defend themselves.
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