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President of Ukraine since 2019
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022.
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SpaceX satellite Internet constellation
Starlink Services, LLC is a telecommunications subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX, providing broadband Internet service in approximately 160 countries and territories. It also aims to provide global mobile broadband. SpaceX began launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of June 2026, the network consisted of approximately 10,413 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that communicate with user terminals and gateway ground stations connecting the constellation to terrestrial internet infrastructure. Starlink also provides in-flight internet access for numerous airlines.
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President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
More on Wikipedia ↗Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on his US counterpart Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies involved in developing the Rassvet satellite network, a potential competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink.
УНН Politics ✎ Zelenskyy said that he had asked Trump several times to impose sanctions against the companies developing “Rassvet.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump to impose sanctions against Russian and Chinese companies that, according to the Ukrainian leader, are involved in the development of the “Rassvet” satellite network—the Russian counterpart to Starlink.