{"id":20066,"date":"2026-08-22T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/ukraine-sought-starlink-access-drone-strikes-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:00:16","slug":"ukraine-sought-starlink-access-drone-strikes-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/ukraine-sought-starlink-access-drone-strikes-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Sought Starlink Access for Drone Strikes on Russia, FT Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has been seeking permission to use Starlink satellite internet to direct drone attacks against Russian territory, the Financial Times reported, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the request came as Ukraine faces a severe shortage of air defence systems, and President Volodymyr Zelensky has tried to secure approval from Elon Musk, the owner of Starlink, to use the system in drone operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times also said, citing its sources, that US President Donald Trump did not back the plan and that Musk is not expected to grant such permission.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is a satellite internet system owned by SpaceX that has been used repeatedly as a communications tool on the battlefield in the Ukraine war, and its role in military operations has previously been controversial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times says Ukraine sought Starlink access to guide drone attacks on Russian territory amid air defence shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}