Rubio says Ukraine does not have access to Starshield

According to Ukrinform, he told this to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for India and Uzbekistan. At the same time, he said Ukraine currently does not have access to the Starshield system. According to Rubio, Starlink is a commercial product, while Starshield is a defense and military product. "I mean that that [Starshield] is something that the United States military uses. It's not at this moment available to Ukraine and that's under conversation. It's under discussion right now how they would want to use it," he said. Rubio denied that the United States was involved in reducing Starlink's operating speed in Ukraine. "We had nothing to do with it. Nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down. It sort of happened.