"(The intelligence data) was blocked for some time. And it was the American side that removed the block," Zelensky said in an interview with NBC’s influential Sunday program Meet the Press.
Intelligence originating primarily from the Starlink satellite system, controlled by tech billionaire Elon Musk through SpaceX, and its military counterpart, Starshield, is said to have been slowed down without further explanation.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in turn, accused Zelenskyy in the same program of being "careless" when he blamed the US government for slowing down satellite communications from Starlink.