Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has fully restored its warnings about incoming Russian ballistic missile strikes, alerts he called critical to the country's air defences.
In an interview with the Ukrainian channel TSN, Zelensky said the alerts had been disrupted in recent weeks and were working again. He linked their resumption, and the return of full-speed Starshield satellite internet, to his meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo.
Starshield, the SpaceX satellite service used by Ukrainian forces, had been throttled earlier in October while Washington pressed Kyiv over diplomatic questions, according to Reuters, in reports carried by CNA and The Straits Times. Zelensky said the service had run normally since the early hours of Oct 24.
He presented both changes as outcomes of the Oslo talks. Witkoff met European leaders there before travelling to Moscow to see Vladimir Putin the following day.
Ukraine's air defences depend on allied early warning data to track ballistic missiles, which give defenders far less time to react than cruise missiles or drones. CNA reported that the US alerts are critical to that system.
On the negotiations, Zelensky repeated that technical talks between Ukrainian, Russian and US teams in November would not touch the size of Ukraine's armed forces or impose neutrality on the country. Territory, he said, can only be settled by leaders. "The issue of territories is a red line that can be discussed exclusively at the level of leaders," he said, according to The Straits Times.
He again pressed for a US-brokered meeting with Putin, arguing that only the Russian president can take decisions on the nearly 20 percent of Ukrainian territory that Russia occupies.
GlobeTV reported on Oct 25 that Zelensky said the trilateral meeting would follow the technical talks in November, with an energy ceasefire, Black Sea grain shipments and prisoner exchanges on the agenda.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Oct 23 that the three-way meeting was planned for November in the United Arab Emirates, The Straits Times reported.