Украйны фронтод Starshield-ийн хязгаарлалт үргэлжилж, Запорожьед 50 хүн шархаджээ

Restrictions on the US Starshield satellite communications system remain in place along Ukraine’s frontline, hampering its military’s ability to intercept Russian drones, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday.

“Unfortunately, the speed restrictions remain in place along the entire front line and in temporarily-occupied territories of Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video address. The restrictions, he said, “limit our ability to intercept jet-powered Shaheds and counter other drones”.

Zelensky said the curbs also sent Russia a signal that Washington might treat Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces differently. “We expect the speed to be restored,” he said.

Ukraine first reported restrictions on Starlink and its military-grade version Starshield in mid-October. Service was restored on 24 October, but Ukrainian forces reported renewed disruptions this week.

Neither SpaceX nor the US government accepted responsibility for the earlier restrictions, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, Democratic US senators Jeanne Shaheen and Chris Coons have asked Elon Musk to preserve SpaceX’s records relating to the restrictions, giving the company until 30 November to confirm it has done so.

Russian attacks on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia injured 50 people on Friday, including eight children. The strikes damaged residential buildings and killed a rescue worker, local authorities said.

Two projectiles fired from a Russian Tornado-S multiple-launch rocket system struck apartment buildings in the Kosmichnyi district, damaging flats across three floors and triggering fires, according to The Kyiv Independent.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said rescuers freed 17 people trapped inside their apartments. A rescue worker was later killed when a concrete slab fell on him as he cleared debris, and a separate Russian attack killed a 17-year-old boy and injured at least four other people.

US president Donald Trump is not expected to raise Russia’s war in Ukraine when he meets Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping in China next Thursday, a White House official said on Friday.

The first trilateral meeting between the three leaders will instead focus on nuclear arms reductions, with Trump also expected to discuss the US-Israeli war against Iran. The leaders are due to meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen.

“We’ve had many meetings recently with the Russians, but China is not really a part of that track, so it doesn’t seem appropriate to have the Ukraine discussion there,” the official said.

A senior Trump administration official said Washington had been holding separate discussions with Moscow on Ukraine, adding that China was not involved in those negotiations. Trump is also not expected to hold a separate bilateral meeting with Putin.

The governor of Russia’s Samara region said on Friday that Ukraine had struck an industrial facility there, killing four people.

In his statement on Russia’s MAX messenger, governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev did not name the facility struck, or the weapons used by Ukraine.

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday Russia had no say over who represented the bloc in the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, adding she knew Moscow ded not want her there but that she spoke on behalf of all 27 member states rather than in a personal capacity.

“They don’t want anybody strong on the other side because they want to push through their maximum demands”, she said, adding that a ceasefire must come first as broader discussions about Europe’s security architecture risked diverting attention.

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Soldiers fighting for Ukraine crawled through 15 kilometres of gas pipeline filled with corpses to launch a surprise attack on Russian troops in Kharkiv.

Volodymyr Zelensky had last month hailed the “stunning success” of the operation by the Khartiia corps, launched to prevent Russian troops slipping into the eastern city of Kupyansk.

Now, Kyiv has revealed that its troops spent as long as a month underground, battling through freezing water and sifting through the bodies of dead Russian soldiers that Moscow had built up as a barricade inside the long tunnels – before opening fire on a group of Russian soldiers.

EU leaders said on Friday that Europe’s security structure should not be a subject for Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations, but they did not answer the question of who should speak for Europe in any future talks.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia would be open to European countries taking part in Ukraine peace talks if it saw they were ready to contribute to the peace process.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz described the Kremlin’s comments as “the same old game” and said that Europe and the United States agreed on a clear message.

“There will be no discussions about Ukraine without Ukraine, and no discussions about Europe without Europe. Furthermore, there is no need to talk about European security architecture. We have that already,” Merz told reporters during a summit of European Union leaders in Dublin.

Russian officials have called for a broad agreement on Europe’s security architecture to be reached before tackling the specifics of the war. Before its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia demanded the withdrawal of NATO forces from countries that joined the alliance after 1997. NATO rejected the demand.

A car bombing on Friday in Moscow injured an adviser to Ukraine’s former prime minister in the second such attack in as many days and part of a series linked to the conflict with Russia’s neighbor.

The explosion struck a car driven by Sergei Zavorotnyi, who previously worked as an adviser to former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. Zavorotnyi was hospitalized with injuries, the committee added.

It didn’t identify possible suspects pending a criminal inquiry.

Azarov served as prime minister under Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced from office by protesters and fled to Russia in February 2014. Azarov also lives in Russia.