IEThe Irish Times
Ukraine seeks Musk’s go-ahead to use Starlink-equipped drones inside Russia
Kyiv wants to target missile launchers across border but Zelenskiy fired defence minister with direct line to SpaceX owner
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- 21 Aug 2026, 11:49 UTC
- Last checked
- 22 Aug 2026, 04:50 UTC
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- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 21 Aug 2026, 11:45 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Christopher Miller in Kyiv
- Section
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Source-supplied excerpt
Kyiv wants to target missile launchers across border but Zelenskiy fired defence minister with direct line to SpaceX owner
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Ukraine seeks Musk’s go-ahead to use Starlink-equipped drones inside Russia
Kyiv wants to target missile launchers across border but Zelenskiy fired defence minister with direct line to SpaceX owner
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Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #831
- Observed
- 21 Aug 2026, 11:49 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 633,887 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt