{"id":468245,"date":"2026-10-16T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/16\/starlink-svela-i-limiti-dellue-kallas-e-necessario-per-lucraina-e-non-siamo-in-grado-di-sostituirlo\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:09:08","slug":"starlink-exposes-the-eus-limitations-kallas-it-is-essential-for-ukraine-and-we-are-unable-to-replace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/16\/starlink-exposes-the-eus-limitations-kallas-it-is-essential-for-ukraine-and-we-are-unable-to-replace-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink exposes the EU\u2019s limitations; Kallas: \u201cIt is essential for Ukraine and we are unable to replace it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cDialogue with our American allies is very, very difficult,\u201d said the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, on her arrival at the European Council<\/a> for the second day of talks in Brussels. She did not hold back on expressing her bitterness at the state of relations with Washington regarding sanctions against Russia for its aggression against Ukraine. She noted that \u201cStarlink is truly essential for Ukraine and, unfortunately, in the short term, Europe is unable to replace this capability.\u201d <\/p>\n

The difficulties faced by Ukrainian military communications due to restrictions on Starlink \u2013 Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX satellite network that provides broadband internet access \u2013 highlight Kyiv\u2019s dependence on American technology<\/a> and the limits of Europe\u2019s ability to replace it. Recent disruptions to the satellite links used by Ukrainian forces, particularly for drone operations, highlight just how crucial US support remains on the ground. This issue comes against a backdrop of growing tensions between Washington and Brussels over the handling of the war. <\/p>\n

This incident highlights the need to speed up the strengthening of European defence.<\/strong> Kallas pointed out that \u201cthe European Defence Agency<\/a> actually mapped all the critical capabilities and enablers that we are missing that we have to fulfil.\u201d In other words, the gaps that Member States must fill. \u201cNow, the question is the implementation of this, and we need to do this as soon as possible because we need the capabilities ourselves,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Ukraine remains, however, the priority for European leaders, particularly in the run-up to what is set to be a particularly difficult winter, as also confirmed by <\/a>the President of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the start of the proceedings. \u201cThe situation is really grave. We need to support Ukraine also to get through the winter because the winter is going to be harsh<\/strong>,\u201d Kallas stressed, highlighting in particular the need to strengthen air defences. From Moscow, she added, \u201cWe do not see any signs from Russia that they want to stop this war, or they are into any kind of truce or peace.”<\/p>\n

 For this reason, Brussels intends to continue putting pressure on the Kremlin. Despite the complexity of the dialogue with the White House, \u201cwe are trying to convince also our American partners that if we want to end this war, then we have to squeeze the aggressor,\u201d the High Representative said. The aim, she clarified, \u201cis not only to end this war, but to make sure that there are no more wars started by Russia.\u201d For this reason, \u201cI have also prepared with the Foreign Ministers our list of requests, our list of European security concerns that we should also present to Russia,” because it is impossible to \u201cgive all the things that they are interested in without having some kind of concessions also from the Russian side\u201d, the former Estonian Prime Minister added. Meanwhile, the EU is working on a new package of sanctions. <\/p>\n

Among the most pressing issues on the table is funding for Ukraine next year<\/strong>, amid limited resources and negotiations on the European multiannual budget<\/a>. Kallas drew attention to the frozen Russian assets: \u201cWe have agreed that we will not return the frozen assets unless Russia pays reparations to Ukraine.\u201d Kyiv, she stressed, \u201cneeds this money right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent disruptions to US-provided satellite communications used by Ukrainian forces show just how crucial US support remains on the ground. Kallas: \u201cDialogue with the US is very difficult\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":468241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[35268,36241,26021,27335,33830,31782,30781],"class_list":["post-468245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-alta-rappresentante-per-la-politica-estera-e-la-sicurezza","tag-bilancio-pluriennale-2028-2034","tag-euco-en-2","tag-council-en","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-qfp-en","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468246,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468245\/revisions\/468246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}