Marco Rubio Erupts at Key Ally in Heated Outburst

C-SPAN Secretary of State Marco Rubio has lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky amid claims that the U.S. has limited Ukraine’s access to SpaceX’s Starshield satellite system.

In an interview Saturday night, Rubio, 55, said of Starshield: “It’s not at this moment available to Ukraine, and that’s under conversation, I mean that’s under discussion right now about how they would want to use it.” “Did the U.S. have anything to do with it not working in Ukraine at the moment? Zelensky said it was deliberate,” the interviewer asked.

Rubio jumped to attack the president of Ukraine.

“No.

I mean, I don’t know what Zelensky said.

I’m not sure Zelensky knows what he’s talking about, but it wasn’t deliberate,” he said.

Turning to Starlink, Rubio acknowledged that the service had slowed in Ukraine but rejected suggestions that the U.S. was responsible.

“It sort of happened.

But my understanding is it’s been restored, it’s back to where it was before, so...” When the interviewer returned to Starshield—SpaceX’s military satellite service—Rubio insisted that Ukraine did not have access to it despite evidence to the contrary .

“Starshield is a totally different product.

Starshield has a contract with the U.S. military and it has nothing to do with Ukraine,” he raged.

“I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield.

They do not have access to Starshield now.

They’ve asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia.