Wes Streeting pressed the US to maintain support for Ukraine during a Washington visit, after a row over Starlink access raised alarm in Kyiv. He said he had been reassured the service had been restored.
01Summary
- 01Wes Streeting met Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and earlier spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
- 02Streeting said the US had been “reassured directly” that access to Starlink for Ukraine had been restored after disruption reported on Monday.
- 03He said the recent row showed how much American support has mattered to Ukraine’s war effort and called it an opportunity for future UK-US defence ties.
- 04The issue comes as tensions also continue over Iran, the Middle East and US military bases in the UK, including RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
- 05Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a day earlier that he felt personally betrayed after the US appeared to throttle Starlink use by Ukraine’s military.
02Why it matters
The row underlines how dependent Ukraine remains on US technology and intelligence in its war against Russia. Any disruption can affect battlefield communications and air defence, with wider implications for European security and transatlantic relations.
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