'Big man, are you playing politics with your products again?'
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Poland's Sikorski taunts Musk
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Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has taken to X to confront the platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk over reported restrictions to Starlink in Ukraine.
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Poland helps Ukraine to foot the bill for Starlink, which provides crucial internet connectivity to Kyiv and its military, and says it pays some $50m a year.
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Sikorski said:
“Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
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As your European customers, we are watching you.”
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The pair repeatedly clashed in the past, with annoyed Musk telling Sikorski last year to be “quiet.”
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Italy's Meloni criticises US-Russia diesel deal as 'very risky choice'
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Meanwhile, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni said the US deal with Russia over diesel supply is “a very risky choice,” with “clear” risks.
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“The outcome of this decision is uncertain, while the risks are clear,” Meloni told the Italian parliament.
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“It provides Moscow with legitimacy as its bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, generates new revenue to finance the war, and implicitly weakens the effectiveness of sanctions,” she added.
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The Italian PM also returned to the idea that the EU27 should appoint “an authoritative figure” to lead talks with Russia and Ukraine.
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The overnight attacks killed at least three people in Kyiv, authorities said.
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Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported overnight that “a massive ballistic missile strike” against the capital hit its energy facilities, causing power outages across the city.
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Wednesday’s Russian attacks also targeted state railway facilities in five regions across Ukraine, said prime minister Sergii Koretskyi.
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Morning opening: Russia showing 'ostentatious disrespect' towards US with attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy says
Jakub Krupa
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“Russia has never before shown such ostentatious disrespect toward the United States,” Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after a night of relentless attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure, despite Donald Trump’s claims of an energy ceasefire.
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The strike was entirely deliberate and demonstrative in its scale,” he said.
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At least 600,000 people were left without power this morning, with temperatures falling below 10 degrees Celsius in Kyiv.
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Meanwhile, a senior aide to Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine has been left struggling after Starlink satellite connection speeds were apparently restricted, complicating military operations on the ground.
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Serhii Beskrestnov, widely known by his call sign, Flash, said:
“Our defence forces received no warning about this restriction, and it led to the disruption of a number of missions.
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Clearly, this action cannot be a coincidence and is linked to the current political situation.”
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is expected in London today for talks with the UK’s prime minister, Andy Burnham, so we will probably hear more from him.
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Elsewhere, Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte will visit Estonia this morning, and Germany’s embattled chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled to address the Bundestag with a statement on the EU and Ukraine this afternoon.
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And Pope Leo had a “peaceful night” at Rome’s Gemelli hospital after yesterday’s surgery which confirmed lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer.
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I will bring you all the updates throughout the day.
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It’s Wednesday, 14 October 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
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