Zelenskiy says Russia's energy attacks helped by Starshield restrictions

Russia struck energy and railway infrastructure in eight regions of Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, in attacks he said

were made possible partly due to restrictions on Ukraine's use of SpaceX's Starshield service.



"The Russians are targeting substations with 'shaheds,'" Zelenskiy said on X, referring to the drones Russia commonly launches across Ukraine. "And many of these strikes are getting through because restrictions on the speed of Starshield terminals along the front line and in the temporarily occupied territories are still there."



Speaking later in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said Russian forces had lately been singling out specific regions and then repeatedly striking them over several days. Zelenskiy said the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions had been particularly badly hit, with repair work proceeding on the

grid and on specific substations.