Finnish President Alexander Stubb appealed to American businessman Elon Musk to expand Starlink coverage and let Ukraine strike ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia, according to TASS. Musk said enabling that use requires a White House decision, and Trump gave no clear answer to Zelensky's requests, according to the Russian agency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said U.S. President Donald Trump gave “final approval” for Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles under license, according to G1. Trump had offered the license in July at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Ankara, then reversed course on July 31, saying “we have not agreed to that,” according to ABC News.
North Korea said South Korea would be a decisive target of collective retaliation if it serves as a hub of the United States collective defense system, in an article by Kang Chol Su, a department director at the Institute of Enemy State Studies, according to TASS, reproducing the North Korean state agency KCNA. The article cites remarks by the commander of the two countries’ forces about Seoul as a collective defense hub, also according to the TASS reproduction.