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Bessent: Zelensky 'should be careful' with 'reckless' comments that US slowed down Starlink

The Hill · October 18, 2026 at 12:48 PM

Bessent: Zelensky 'should be careful' with 'reckless' comments that US slowed down Starlink

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should be careful” with “reckless” comments about the U.S. slowing down Starlink.

“President Trump and Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio have categorically said that no one in the Trump administration did that.

And I think it is very reckless for President Zelensky to make...

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Bessent: Zelensky 'should be careful' with 'reckless' comments that US slowed down Starlink

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