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Ukraine hits Russian refinery as Starlink satellite services are restored

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Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield satellite services — critical tools in its war against Russia that were unexpectedly throttled this week — have been restored to full capacity, a Ukrainian official tells Axios. The official also said that Ukraine conducted a strike overnight against a Russian oil r

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Both outlets center the same pairing of themes: Ukraine’s strike on a Russian oil refinery and the restoration of Starlink services. Axios foregrounds the satellite-service angle, saying a Ukrainian official told it Starlink and Starshield were restored to full capacity, while Reuters leads with the refinery strike and frames it as a defiance of Trump’s energy ceasefire. Only Axios explicitly adds the official restoration detail in its extract.

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