{"id":227002,"date":"2026-10-09T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-criticises-us-calls-for-more-starlink-access-amid-deadly-russian-assault-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:41:38","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-criticises-us-calls-for-more-starlink-access-amid-deadly-russian-assault-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-criticises-us-calls-for-more-starlink-access-amid-deadly-russian-assault-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy criticises US, calls for more Starlink access, amid deadly Russian assault – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian president says expanded Starlink access will help nation target Russian ballistic-missile launchers. What we know on day 1,689
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the US of being unwilling to help Ukraine after a Russian bomb attack on Thursday killed at least 35<\/strong> people in the east, sending the two-day death \u2060toll from Russian strikes to more than 70. Hours \u2060after the strike on the \u200bembattled city of Kramatorsk tore through two buses<\/a>, Zelenskyy criticised Washington\u2019s effort to pursue economic ties with Russia while also seeking to mediate the more than four-year war.
Speaking to reporters in \u200cPryluky, the Ukrainian leader urged the US to accede \u200cto his requests to expand Ukraine\u2019s access to the Starlink satellite service<\/strong> to help it target Russian ballistic-missile launchers. \u201cOpen Starlink for Ukraine. You did open it when you \u200cwere responding to Iran … I\u2019ve said quite openly \u2013 give it to us, help us defend our skies and dominate there. And then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table,\u201d he said.
UN rights chief Volker Turk said he was appalled by Thursday\u2019s \u201chorrifying strike\u201d.<\/strong> \u201cI am appalled by the wave of attacks killing civilians across Ukraine over the past four days, including today\u2019s horrifying strike hitting two public buses,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe scale and manner of these attacks \u2013 killing and injuring people on buses, at their homes and work in different areas of the country \u2013 is reprehensible. In the last two days, 78 people were killed and \u200b215 wounded by strikes across Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian negotiators will travel to the US on Friday and Saturday for talks, Zelenskyy said<\/strong>, urging US president Donald Trump to increase sanction pressure on Russia. Ukraine\u2019s president told reporters that he expected Kyiv\u2019s European partners to join the talks with the US. Zelenskyy said his chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, as well as Ukraine\u2019s top officials: Rustem Umerov, Sergiy Kyslytsya and David Arakhamia will take part in the talks in Florida.
The US-led peace efforts to end the Ukraine war have <\/strong>largely stalled<\/strong>, with Washington focused on its conflict with Iran. But US officials said they were making a fresh effort in an enlarged format, following visits to Moscow and Kyiv last month by Witkoff, Trump\u2019s business friend-turned-roving envoy, and the president\u2019s son-in-law Kushner. US officials said the envoys would discuss \u201csecurity guarantees for Ukraine, a postwar prosperity plan, and other aspects of the conflict\u201d. Witkoff and Kushner \u201cwill discuss new ideas and proposals that American negotiators began developing with the Russians and Ukrainians during their recent visit to the region,\u201d a source familiar with the talks said.
Nato said it would start its annual \u2018nuclear deterrence\u2019 exercises in Italy<\/strong> from Tuesday amid mounting concerns about Russia. The drills will run from 13-23 October and involve 17 nations. \u201cThe exercise is a long-planned, routine training activity that is part of Nato\u2019s efforts to maintain readiness and test procedures that contribute to the alliance\u2019s deterrence and defence,\u201d said a Nato statement.
South Korea will \u2060recall its ambassador to Ukraine, the foreign minister said on Thursday<\/strong>, following a dispute<\/a> over \u2060Zelenskyy\u2019s announcement that two \u2060North \u200bKorean prisoners of war were being transferred to Seoul. The two sides have been locked in a dispute \u2060after Seoul accused Kyiv of breaching a confidentiality agreement over the transfer of the captured soldiers.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian president says expanded Starlink access will help nation target Russian ballistic-missile launchers. What we know on day 1,689 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the US of being unwilling to help Ukraine after a Russian bomb attack on Thursday killed at least 35 people in the east, sending the two-day death \u2060toll from Russian strikes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}