U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be "very careful" in public statements regarding claims of U.S. restrictions on Starlink satellite internet services. This followed Zelenskyy's assertion that he believed the U.S. government was responsible for Starlink's slowdown in Ukraine, and that Ukraine had at one point been blocked from accessing U.S. intelligence. Bessent noted that Donald Trump and Marco Rubio had explicitly denied such actions during the Trump administration, and deemed Zelenskyy's accusations "very reckless." Musk had previously posted on X that the Starshield system is owned and controlled by the U.S. government, and any speed or usage restrictions are determined by the U.S. military and the President, but Donald Trump denied this claim.