Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warns “people will die” after sudden restrictions on the military version of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites — a vital tool in Ukraine’s defence system — appeared to slow the country’s drones on the battlefield.

Zelenskyy also said Ukraine was denied the usual advance warning from its Western partners about coming strikes, deepening fears that Kyiv’s relationship with Washington was unravelling.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said any disruption was the US government’s responsibility, not his company’s. He drew a distinction between the Starshield system, which Ukraine relies on for battlefield communications, and the parallel Starlink civilian satellite system, which Ukraine also deploys but is not allowed to use for offensive operations.

Trump’s rhetoric towards Ukraine and Zelenskyy has hardened in recent weeks, with the US president agreeing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, and also called for Ukraine to find a new president. In response to increasingly frosty relations between Washington and Kyiv, Zelenskyy said it was a “pity” for Ukraine to lose a “strong partner”.

US authorities have conducted a pre-dawn raid on the Washington-area home of Democratic US representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump who has been the target of political insults by the Republican president.

A person familiar with the investigation said it was related to alleged immigration fraud, and part of the probe concerned the Somali-born politician’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

The raid was carried out a little more than three weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, when Trump’s party will be trying to defend its narrow majorities in the US Congress. Speaking outside a US military air base, Donald Trump told reporters officials were looking “very carefully” into Ms Omar after the raid. He said the congresswoman was a “complainer” from a “non-country” before departing for Ohio, where he will host a rally.

Ms Omar called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponise federal law enforcement”. Minnesota Democrats also condemned the raid, with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticizing Trump for abusing his power to go after political opponents weeks before an election.

The family of late Cantopop star Anita Mui has appealed for information after discovering almost three months ago that an urn containing her ashes had been taken from a Lantau monastery.

In a statement dated Saturday, the family said a fan who went to pay respects to Mui at Po Lin Monastery on July 18 found that a screw had been loosened at the late singer’s columbarium niche. The urn containing her ashes was not inside. But the police’s investigation has gone on for almost three months, and there has been no progress, despite the fact that the fan immediately notified Mui’s family, who quickly filed a police report.

The statement added that, coupled with the recent death of Mui’s mother, who passed away in August at the age of 102, the family was “enduring a double blow and [was] utterly heartbroken.” They appealed to anybody who was at Po Lin Monastery on or before July 18, who might have seen anybody suspicious or appearing to hold an urn, to reach out to the family. They also asked motorists who had driven near the monastery in July, particularly before July 18, to submit dashcam footage.