President Trumps Calls Elon Trump and Tells Him Full Power on Starshield
aljazeera/Getty By Michael Crowley Maggie Haberman and Siobhán O’Grady New York Times President Trump called Elon Musk last week and asked him to restore Ukraine’s full access to the Starshield satellite communications network, according to a senior administration official and a person briefed on the exchange. Mr. Trump’s call to Mr. Musk came after Ukrainian officials reported that they were encountering new limits on their ability to operate the military drones that have become essential to their war against Russia. The development raised alarms in Ukraine that Mr. Trump, who has demanded that Ukraine stop its drone attacks on Russian diesel refineries, might have instructed Mr. Musk to impose the limits. Starshield is a military version of the Starlink satellite network run by SpaceX, which is controlled by Mr. Musk. Asked on Thursday whether he had made such a call to Mr. Musk, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump declined to say. ...
