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The law gave him the ability to punish countries buying Russian oil with secondary sanctions.Ukraine\u2019s partners did not share intelligence that five ballistic missiles were headed towards Kyiv on October 13, Zelenskyy said, without naming the US. Those missiles struck Kyiv\u2019s Thermal Power Plant number 4, one of the capital\u2019s biggest, resulting in power outages.Russia then pounded Ukraine\u2019s electricity infrastructure on October 14, when Ukraine reported it had restricted use of SpaceX\u2019s satellite navigation services, which it uses to defend itself.Over a 24-hour period, Russia launched 850 drones and 39 missiles, striking 30 energy targets across 19 regions of Ukraine, despite the fact that Trump had declared an energy ceasefire on October 11.\u201cThis level of blatant disregard for the United States by Russia has not been seen before,\u201d Zelenskyy said.Starshield, the military element of the Starlink satellite network owned by SpaceX, capped Ukraine\u2019s use of its navigation services at 160 km/h (100mph).A daughter of a killed woman, found under debris, reacts at a site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian jet drone strike, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 13, 2026 [Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters]This meant that Ukraine lost sight of its interceptors above that speed, making it difficult or impossible to stop Russian jet-powered Geran-4 drones, which fly at speeds exceeding 500 km/h (310mph).Six in 10 Russian drones are now jet-powered, Zelenskyy said.\u201cStarshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS,\u201d wrote SpaceX owner Elon Musk.Starshield services had begun to return to normal on October 15, sources at Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defence said.Ukraine is so heavily targeted by Russian aerial strikes that an outage in its ability to navigate interceptors for a prolonged period could be ruinous.During September, its air force intercepted more than 4,700 drones and missiles of various kinds.Starshield is equally important for Ukraine\u2019s ability to hobble Russian offensive operations. Ukraine has wrought havoc with Russian supply lines for months, striking fuel trucks, bridges, ammunition warehouses and air defences.During September alone, Ukraine\u2019s military said it had struck 40 command posts and 50 logistics facilities.The Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine\u2019s data showed that strikes fell from a daily average of 2,300 to 1,678 on October 14 and 1,053 on October 15.This was not the first such disruption of services under the Trump administration.The US had also stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine in March, helping Russia reclaim its Kursk region, which Ukraine had counter-invaded.Ukraine advancesDespite the setbacks this week, Ukraine has continued to win back territory.Its Third Army Corps concluded a fourth phase of Operation Vivaldi in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, reclaiming an additional 100sq km of territory (40sq miles), said Corps commander Andrii Biletskyi.That brought the operation\u2019s gains to 275sq km (100sq miles) and 16 settlements since August, and brought Russia\u2019s overall gains this year close to nil.The campaign was designed to push back against a Russian effort to seize the town of Lyman. A separate counteroffensive further south pushed back against an attempted Russian takeover of Dobropillya. Ukraine saw the two initiatives as an effort to surround the \u201cfortress cities\u201d of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in a pincer movement.Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensives have drawn away Russian units directly facing Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, paralysing this part of the front.\u201cRussian forces averaged around 14 attacks per day in the Sloviansk direction in August 2026, five in September 2026, and three per day thus far in October 2026,\u201d wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.\u201cRussian forces averaged around three attacks per day in the Kramatorsk direction in August 2026, one in September 2026, and only an average of 0.3 thus far in October 2026,\u201d the ISW said.\u201cWe are stopping all enemy attempts to advance or infiltrate,\u201d said Zelenskyy. \u201cUkraine\u2019s positions on the front remain strong, and this year they are the strongest they have been in a long time.\u201dZelenskyy said Russian forces outnumber Ukraine\u2019s by six to eight times in parts of the front, and it appeared that they have recently received reinforcements.Robert Brovdi, the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine, said the personnel increase \u201ctranslates into a significant increase\u201d in Russian casualties.During the first two weeks of October, Brovdi said, Russian casualties increased by 25 percent compared with the first two weeks in September and by almost 60 percent compared with the first two weeks in August.In Dobropyllia, the Russian casualties were higher than anywhere else on the front, he said, 43 percent above September\u2019s rate and double the rate in August.Ukraine\u2019s success is due in part to its production of domestically designed drones in partnership with European allies.Ukraine\u2019s Defence Ministry\u2019s orders in 2026 were higher by half than in 2025, it said, and delivery volumes were almost four times what they had been last year.While Ukraine respected Trump\u2019s energy ceasefire for three days, it returned to striking Russian refineries on October 15.It also continued to strike non-energy targets throughout the week.Ukraine struck a facility manufacturing explosives and rocket fuel in Nizhny Novgorod on October 9, and a plant making additives for missile fuels in the Tver region.On October 15, it destroyed four Sukhoi fighters and damaged another two at the Borisoglebsk airfield in the Voronezh region.Ukraine also targeted three data centres owned by the Russian cloud services company Yandex, destroying or crippling those in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir between October 8 and 11. 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