Video taking off 45x its usual first day

A 100 mph Starlink cap, and Ukraine says its drone crews got no warning

Forbes' short report links the complaint to a dispute over strikes on Russian refineries, and its comment section filled up with an argument over who sets the limit.

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Forbes Story of October 15, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 71,402 views a day, 44 times a normal first day on this channel (1,604).

Ukraine Says Musk's SpaceX Is Restricting Its Starlink Military Use—Drone Missions Affected

The figure at the center of Forbes' report is a speed: 100 mph. Serhiy Beskrestnov, a Ukrainian adviser, said on Telegram that SpaceX had placed that cap on Starlink terminals used by drone operators. He said it arrived without warning and disrupted several operations.

The report adds a detail that makes the problem more concrete. Citing Reuters, the narrator says drones lost their connection for up to 20 seconds at speeds between 68 and 75 mph, well below the cap Beskrestnov described. For a drone crew, that is a long time to fly blind.

At the time of the report, neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk had commented publicly. Beskrestnov tied the restrictions to politics. Forbes then sets out that backdrop. Donald Trump had criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy over Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel refineries: "Don't hit the refineries because that's a world's problem," the narrator quotes him as saying. Diesel prices in the US were already rising, influenced by the war with Iran. Musk had posted on X that "Zelenskyy has gone too far." The written version, by Siladitya Ray, also mentions Trump's declaration of an "energy ceasefire."

The Short drew close to 39,000 views in its first nine hours, while a longer upload of the same report also drew thousands. The comments moved far faster than they usually do under a Forbes Short. Much of the discussion is about responsibility. The most-liked comments point to a statement they attribute to Musk: that limits on Starshield, the government version of the system, are set by the US military. The Forbes video itself does not mention that statement.

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