财政部长斯科特·贝森特周日表示，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基关于美国放慢Starlink服务的“鲁莽”言论“应该小心”。贝森特在NBC新闻节目《Meet the Press》上说：“特朗普总统和[国务卿马尔科]卢比奥已经明确表示，特朗普政府中没有人做过这件事。我认为泽连斯基总统提出这样的指控非常鲁莽。”贝森特说：“它是怎么变慢的？这些中断是怎么造成的？因为泽连斯基总统还说情报共享也出现了中断。那是为什么？”
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 such a charge,” Bessent said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”“How did it get slowed down? How are these disruptions caused? Because President Zelensky also said there was a break in intel sharing as well. Why did that happen?”
NBC新闻的克里斯滕·韦尔克追问贝森特。“再说一次，我对这件事一无所知，但我们已经表达得非常清楚。你知道，泽连斯基总统在发表这种不实言论时应该非常小心。”贝森特回应道。在韦尔克与贝森特对话前播出的采访中，泽连斯基告诉NBC新闻主持人，“这个消息来自”美国政府，要求为乌克兰放慢Starlink。“我不知道是来自谁，哪个部门等等。我认为无论哪种方式都不起作用。但我真的不知道。但我们认为——这不是我的看法。这是我们的将军、我们的政府以及当然还有我的看法，都是一样的，即这是来自美国政府限制速度的信息，”泽连斯基说。
NBC News’s Kristen Welker pressed Bessent. “Again, I don't know anything about that, but we've been very clear. And, you know, President Zelensky should be very careful about making statements like this that aren't true,” Bessent responded. In an interview with Welker that aired right before her conversation with Bessent, Zelensky told the NBC News anchor that “the message came from” the American government to slow Starlink for Ukraine. “I don't know from whom, what cabinet and etcetera. And I think it doesn't work either way. But I don't know, really. But we think — it's not my opinion. It's opinion of our generals, of our government, and of course my also opinion, the same, that it was a message from American government to limit the speed,” Zelensky said.
周五，特朗普表示，他和SpaceX创始人埃隆·马斯克都没有导致上周早些时候Starlink出现故障。“我没有做那件事。不，我们根本没有做那件事。事实上，根据我的理解，我甚至不认为它被放慢了。因为我刚刚今天早上查看过了，”特朗普周五对记者说。“我是从新闻、媒体那里听说的。而且我们根本没有放慢它。根据我的理解，我认为它可能正常运行，”他继续说道。
On Friday, Trump said that neither he nor SpaceX founder Elon Musk caused an outage of Starlink earlier last week. “I didn’t do that. No, we didn’t do that at all. In fact, I don’t even think it was slowed down from what I understood. Because I just checked this morning,” Trump told reporters Friday. “I heard about it from the news, the media. And we didn’t slow it down at all. And I think it’s probably functioning, from what I understand,” he continued.
乌克兰上周三报告了此次中断，该国称其军方失去了对星链军用版的访问权限，而该版本是乌克兰用于重要通信的工具。一位熟悉情况的消息人士称，星链服务仅对速度超过每小时100英里的物体进行了限制，这影响了乌克兰的无人机、飞机和直升机。一些乌克兰官员表示，限制其星链访问的决定可能来自华盛顿。
Ukraine reported the outage last Wednesday, with the country claiming its military lost access to the military version of Starlink, which the Eastern European country uses for vital communications. Starlink services were restricted specifically for objects that went over 100 miles per hour, impacting Ukrainian drones, airplanes and helicopters, according to a source familiar with the matter. Some Ukrainian officials suggested the decision to limit its Starlink access may have come from Washington.