{"id":3111,"date":"2025-02-22T01:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2025-02-22T02:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:26:20","slug":"us-threatens-to-shut-down-starlink-in-ukraine-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/us-threatens-to-shut-down-starlink-in-ukraine-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"US threatens to shut down Starlink in Ukraine \u2013 Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington reportedly considers using the satellite technology as leverage when bargaining about mineral reserves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">US officials have warned that they could block Ukraine from using Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink internet terminals if Kiev doesn\u2019t grant access to its critical mineral\u00a0reserves,\u00a0Reuters reported on Saturday, citing three people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Musk, a major ally of US President Donald Trump, has donated more than 40,000 internet terminals since 2022, which have been widely used by Ukrainian troops on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">According to Reuters, during a meeting between Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and Trump\u2019s envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Kiev on Thursday, the Ukrainians were told that they faced an <em>\u201cimminent shutoff\u201d<\/em> of Starlink satellite service if they did not sign a deal on critical minerals with the US.\u00a0<br \/><em>\u201cUkraine runs on Starlink. They consider it their North Star,\u201d<\/em> a source told Reuters, adding that losing the service <em>\u201cwould be a massive blow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington reportedly considers using the satellite technology as leverage when bargaining about mineral reserves US officials have warned that they could block Ukraine from using Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink internet terminals if Kiev doesn\u2019t grant access to its critical mineral\u00a0reserves,\u00a0Reuters reported on Saturday, citing three people familiar with the matter. Musk, a major ally of US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}