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Newest story built on kyivindependent.com reporting: Reuters traces Ukraine's Starlink slowdown to an order from inside the White House (October 15, 2026). kyivindependent.com reporting informs the Security, Invest, and Product desks, most often on Russia-Ukraine War, Attacks on data centres, and Drone warfare. 5 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from October 11, 2026.
Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said on Oct. 14 that SpaceX capped Starlink's StarShield military service package at 100 mph on moving terminals. A Defense Ministry source says the cause is under investigation.
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Ukrainian drones hit Sberbank's Balakovo data center on Wednesday, the fourth Russian site struck in a week after three of Yandex's. Neither company has said whether a supercomputer was damaged.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, the Kyiv Independent reported. Yandex's fintech head said many users could not check balances or pay. Site protection now belongs in the cyber-risk register.
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