2026-10-16T04:01:32.764Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/politics/ukraine-trump-russia-starlink
自去年白宫风波以来美乌关系遭遇的最严重危机正在进一步恶化，导火索是围绕谁下令中断一套运行在埃隆·马斯克“星链”互联网服务上的关键乌克兰军事系统的争议。
与此同时，弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基总统警告称，他将恢复对俄罗斯炼油厂的袭击，而唐纳德·特朗普总统坚称这些袭击会在美国中期选举前推高高昂的柴油和汽油价格。
这场新的破裂反映了乌克兰在为生存而战的过程中面临的一个严峻新现实：特朗普为转嫁其在伊朗发动战争所带来的、会在政治上造成毁灭性后果的能源成本的努力，正让乌克兰赢得自身战争的过程变得更加艰难和危险。
特朗普在周四接受纽smax电视台采访时猛烈抨击了这位乌克兰领导人。
“我不太喜欢泽连斯基。他们把那个国家毁了，”他说，显然将这场战争的毁灭性后果归咎于这个正抵御俄罗斯入侵者的国家。“我发现泽连斯基比普京更难打交道。”
这并非泽连斯基和乌克兰首次在美国大选前触怒特朗普。2019年的一次电话通话中，这位总统曾以军事援助为要挟，试图迫使泽连斯基启动对乔·拜登及其儿子亨特的调查。这一行为最终导致特朗普首次被弹劾。
乌克兰最新卷入美国政治的事件，引发了华盛顿和欧洲方面的担忧：这位总统不仅在优先考虑自身的政治需求，如今还正在采取一系列措施主动帮助普京。
华盛顿和基辅之间的最新危机始于特朗普上周五宣布一项规避制裁的协议，计划从俄罗斯购买柴油。
随后在周末，特朗普政府警告乌克兰，如果乌克兰不停止对俄罗斯炼油厂的远程袭击，美国可能会暂停与其军事行动的情报共享，并阻止欧洲购买美国制造的武器。
在包括众多共和党人在内的强烈反对声中，特朗普宣布了一项涵盖能源设施的俄乌停火协议——但随后又表示，他事先并未将此事告知困惑的交战双方。
乌克兰遵守了这一虚假停火协议，结果俄罗斯却对其能源设施发动了毁灭性的空袭和无人机袭击，导致60万人陷入黑暗。周二，泽连斯基表示，在俄罗斯弹道导弹袭击基辅一座大型发电厂并损毁一栋住宅楼之前，乌克兰政府没有收到美国通常会提前发出的预警。
这场与华盛顿的对峙让乌克兰格外愤慨，因为此时正值俄罗斯对平民发动不间断的导弹袭击，而美国并未对此发表任何重要谴责。
23岁的基辅居民卡佳·富季马周四在接受CNN记者吉姆·斯库托采访时表示，首都的导弹袭击变得越来越令人恐惧。“你永远不知道，说不定下一秒就会击中你的房子，或者你邻居的房子，”她说。当被问及为何俄罗斯弹道导弹现在来袭时毫无预警时，她回答道：“我认为这是政治原因……美国之前都会提前警告我们。”
平民的脆弱性在周四得到了进一步印证，CNN报道称乌克兰的美制“爱国者”防空系统已经耗尽了导弹。特朗普今年早些时候曾公开提出一个诱人的可能性，即授权乌克兰生产这种关键武器的本土版本，但他并未采取这一肯定会激怒俄罗斯的行动。
到周四，泽连斯基已经失去耐心，宣布恢复对俄罗斯能源设施的袭击。此举导致乌克兰部分地区出现加油站排队的情况，他希望借此加大对普京的施压力度。
“我们受够了，”他在接受《金融时报》采访时说道。泽连斯基指责美国正设想与普京达成更多交易，可能涉及天然气，他预测这在美国国内将不得人心。“每个人都会想问，当一些人还在挣扎求生、战斗、牺牲的时候，你们怎么能……和这些如此具有侵略性的家伙做生意，”他告诉该报。
围绕太空探索技术公司“星盾”系统——马斯克“星链”服务的军用版本——的风波不仅显著加剧了华盛顿和基辅之间的愤怒，还引发了人们对这位全球首富全球角色和影响力的新质疑。他的技术已经成为新战争时代不可或缺的工具。
乌克兰将领们对“星盾”系统的使用限制感到震惊。该系统并非由马斯克拥有和控制，而是属于美国政府。
这些限制实际上限制了包括无人机在内的乌克兰军事装备的运行速度，并削弱了乌军的通信能力以及战机和直升机的作战能力。这些限制相当于为俄罗斯军队在战场上提供了重大的军事优势。
华盛顿内部对于是什么导致了系统运行减速的谜团越来越多。马斯克周三在X平台上发帖称：“任何关于速度或使用的限制都是由美国军方决定的，最终由总统决定。”但两名美国高级官员告诉CNN，限制“星盾”的命令并非来自特朗普。一些官员越来越确信，马斯克在很大程度上难辞其咎。
路透社周四晚间报道称，限制卫星系统的命令来自白宫内部，消息援引两名美国官员和一名了解情况的西方官员的话。
泽连斯基明确表示，这些限制是蓄意为之。“这不是技术问题，”他告诉《金融时报》。一名乌克兰军方消息人士告诉该报，该系统的全部功能现已恢复，速度限制已被解除。
“星盾”事件发生之前，特朗普近期的一系列行动和言论让盟友感到沮丧。盟友们认为，结束这场战争的唯一途径是向普京施压——普京2022年发动非法入侵，企图摧毁这个前苏维埃共和国的主权。
特朗普的美国批评者认为，这笔柴油交易只是他安抚普京的最新例证，因为该协议在中期选举前几乎无法降低油价。但如果全面落实，这项协议将在多年国际制裁后向俄罗斯经济注入数十亿美元，并可能被用于增强俄罗斯的战争机器。
“特朗普不顾一切地想做任何事情来提升自己和共和党在参议院中期选举中的选情，”特拉华州民主党参议员克里斯·库恩斯周三在CNN新闻中心节目中表示。
从战略角度来看，这笔柴油交易尤其令人费解，因为正如CNN在3月报道的那样，俄罗斯在战争初期曾向伊朗提供美国舰船、飞机和人员的位置情报。而此时，俄罗斯正被指控针对美国北约盟友实施破坏和骚扰行动。英国国内情报机构军情五处负责人本周警告称，莫斯科已成为“头号侵略者”，并正在对英国及其盟友开展混合战运动。
特朗普政府表示，总统仍在寻找开启和平谈判的机会。“我认为，实际上普京比泽连斯基更想达成协议，”特朗普周一说道。
但自特朗普去年重返白宫以来，没有任何迹象表明普京已缓和其立场——即乌克兰应交出其东部尚未被克里姆林宫军队占领的关键领土，以换取战争结束。这是泽连斯基永远不可能接受的协议：这将玷污乌克兰阵亡将士的荣誉，并让俄罗斯为未来的入侵建立桥头堡。
但也存在另一种解读特朗普最新直白的“美国优先”政策的视角。
伦敦皇家联合服务研究所金融与安全中心主任汤姆·基廷周四在接受CNN国际频道采访时表示：“唐纳德·特朗普将自己的选举立场置于乌克兰人民的安全、福祉和生命之上，大西洋两岸的观众和政策制定者都不应忽视这一点。”
CNN的扎卡里·科恩为本报道贡献了采访报道。
Controversy over Musk military system in Ukraine pitches relations with US into deeper crisis
2026-10-16T04:01:32.764Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/politics/ukraine-trump-russia-starlink
The worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since last year’s Oval Office meltdown is deteriorating further over a dispute about who ordered a disruption to a critical Ukrainian military system running on Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is meanwhile warning he will resume attacks on Russian oil refineries that President Donald Trump insists are worsening high diesel and gasoline prices ahead of US midterm elections.
The new rupture reflects a stark new reality for Ukraine as it fights for its life: Trump’s drive to defray the politically ruinous energy costs of his war, in Iran, is making it harder and more dangerous for Ukraine to win its own.
Trump lashed out at the Ukrainian leader in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday.
“I’m not a big fan of Zelensky. They’ve destroyed that country,” he said, apparently blaming the devastating results of the war on a nation defending itself against Russian invaders. “I find Zelensky to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.”
This is not the first time that Zelensky and Ukraine have fallen afoul of Trump ahead of a US election. In a 2019 phone call, the president used the prospect of military aid to try to pressure Zelensky into opening an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The move led to Trump’s first impeachment.
Ukraine’s latest entanglement in US politics is fueling concerns in Washington and Europe that the president is not just prioritizing his own political needs but is now taking a series of steps to actively help Putin.
The latest crisis between Washington and Kyiv started when Trump last Friday announced a sanctions-busting deal to buy diesel from Russia.
The Trump administration then warned Ukraine at the weekend that the US could halt intelligence-sharing for its military operations and block European purchases of US-made weapons if it did not stop long-range attacks on Russia’s refineries.
Amid a furious backlash, including among many Republicans, Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine covering energy installations — but later signaled that he hadn’t informed the mystified combatants about it beforehand.
Ukraine observed the pseudo-truce, only for Russia to launch devastating air and drone strikes against its energy plants that left 600,000 people in the dark. On Tuesday, Zelensky said his government had not received its usual early warning from the US before a Russian ballistic missile attack hit a major power plant in Kyiv and damaged a residential building.
The showdown with Washington left Ukraine especially embittered because it came against a backdrop of relentless missile attacks on civilians that drew no significant US condemnation.
Katya Futyma, a 23-year-old resident of Kyiv, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Thursday that missile attacks in the capital were becoming increasingly scary. “You never know, like any second it could hit maybe your house, maybe your (neighbor’s) house,” she said. Asked why Russian ballistic missiles were now arriving without warning, she replied: “I think it’s political … the US had warned us before.”
The vulnerability of civilians was reinforced on Thursday when CNN reported that Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air-defense system. Trump had earlier this year publicly raised the tantalizing possibility of licensing Ukraine to produce its own versions of the vital weapon. But he has not followed through on a step that would surely irritate Russia.
By Thursday, Zelensky’s patience had run out and he announced a resumption of attacks on Russian energy installations, which have led to lines at gas stations in parts of the country, as he seeks to increase pressure on Putin.
“We’re done,” he told the Financial Times in an interview. Zelensky accused the US of envisaging more deals with Putin, possibly for gas, which he predicted would be unpopular in America. “Everybody will want to ask how it can be when some people are surviving, fighting, dying — and you make … business with the guys with such aggression,” he told the paper.
The drama over the SpaceX Starshield system, a military-grade version of Musk’s Starlink service, did not simply significantly escalate the furor in Washington and Kyiv. It raised fresh questions about the global role and influence of the world’s richest man, whose technologies have become indispensable in a new age of warfare.
Ukrainian generals were shocked by the limits on the Starshield system, which is owned and controlled not by Musk but by the US government.
The restrictions effectively limited the speed of Ukrainian military hardware, including drones, and reduced the military’s capacity to communicate and to operate war planes and helicopters. These curbs amounted to a significant military advantage to Russia’s forces on the battlefield.
There is a growing mystery in Washington over what led to the slowdown. Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday that “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” But two senior US officials told CNN that the order to limit Starshield did not come from Trump. Some officials are increasingly convinced that Musk was in large part to blame.
Reuters reported on Thursday evening that the order to limit the satellite system came from inside the White House, citing two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
Zelensky is in no doubt that the limits were deliberate. “It was not a technical problem,” he told the Financial Times. A Ukrainian military source told the paper that the full functionality of the system has now been restored and speed limits were lifted.
The Starshield episode followed recent moves and rhetoric by Trump that have dismayed allies who believe the only path to ending the war lies in pressuring Putin — who launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in a bid to crush the former Soviet republic’s sovereignty.
Trump’s US critics argue that the diesel deal is just the latest example of his habit of appeasing Putin, since it will do little to lower prices before the midterm elections. But if followed through in its entirety, the agreement will inject billions of dollars into the Russian economy after years of international sanctions and will likely be used to bolster the Russian war machine.
“Trump is desperate to do anything to help improve his standing and the standing of Republicans running for the Senate in these midterm elections,” Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons told CNN News Central on Wednesday.
As a strategic matter, the diesel deal is especially puzzling because, as CNN reported in March, Russia provided Iran with intelligence about the locations of US ships, aircraft and personnel earlier in the war. It also comes as Russia is accused of sabotage and harassment operations against US NATO allies. The head of MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service, this week warned Moscow had become “aggressor number one” and was conducting a campaign of hybrid warfare against the United Kingdom and its allies.
The administration says the president is still searching for openings to forge peace. “I think, actually, Putin wants to make a deal more than Zelensky,” Trump said on Monday.
But there has been no sign since Trump returned to office last year that Putin has moderated his position — that Ukraine should hand over critical territory in the country’s east that Kremlin forces have not captured — in return for an end to the war. This is a deal Zelensky could never make: It would dishonor Ukraine’s war dead and allow Russia to build a beachhead for a future invasion.
But there is an alternative interpretation of this latest blunt application of Trump’s “America First” policy.
Tom Keatinge, director of the Center for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told CNN International on Thursday: “Donald Trump is putting his electoral position ahead of the security, the safety, the lives of Ukrainian people, and this should not be lost on viewers and on policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic.”
CNN’s Zachary Cohen contributed reporting.
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