Ukraine has almost run out of Patriot interceptor missiles, leaving the country vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, U.S. newspaper The Washington Post reported on Friday. The country has just two Patriot missile remaining, a Ukrainian official spoken to by the newspaper said.
Ukraine's resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a “disgrace” that keeps global energy prices elevated, U.S. President Donald Trump told the Newsmax news outlet in an interview aired on Thursday.
Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised Trump's willingness to strike deals with Moscow.
“All he's doing is making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that's a disgrace,” Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft refinery southeast of Moscow which helps to supply the Russian capital.
“There are a lot of targets you can hit, but when you shoot at diesel refineries where you make, you know, diesel oil, and we need that, and the world needs that, then he's not doing a good service for the world,” Trump added.
The order to limit a satellite internet system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
The officials said leaders at the U.S. Defence Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not specify who in the White House made the decision or who was responsible for implementing the order. The Pentagon is the biggest customer of Starshield, which is the military-grade version of the Starlink service.
Ukrainian officials said this week that military-grade Starlink receptors stopped working in Ukraine when mounted on fast-moving objects, interfering with the performance of Ukrainian drones that rely on them for onboard guidance systems over Ukrainian territory.
A person in Ukraine's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that the receptors were now working when in motion, but only at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour.
Ukraine's stock of Patriot air defence missiles has reached critically low levels, leaving the country vulnerable to continued Russian attacks, U.S. newspaper The Washington Post has reported, citing a Ukrainian official and another person familiar with the matter.
Patriot air defence missiles are the only weapon capable of reliably intercepting ballistic missiles fired at the country by Russia.
According to a Ukrainian official spoken to by The Washington Post, the country has just two Patriot interceptor missiles remaining.
Global supplies of the missiles are extremely depleted due to their heavy use in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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