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Republican lawmakers are calling for a congressional investigation into last week’s slowdown of satellite internet used by Ukraine’s military, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said nobody ordered it and that it “sort of happened.”

Getting into it: While speaking to reporters Saturday, Rubio said “no one at the White House ordered anyone to slow down internet,” calling reports otherwise “categorically false” and saying service is “back to where it was before.” He also said Kyiv has asked for Starshield, the military version of Starlink, to hit targets deep inside Russia but doesn’t have it yet, a claim that clashes with reporting from Reuters and the AP that Ukrainian forces were using Starshield when the restriction hit.

Reuters reported Thursday, citing two US officials and a Western official, that the order to slow the service came from inside the White House, though they didn’t say who made it, and a senior US official said “no such request was ever made by the president.” Trump said Friday, “I don’t know if it was anybody, but it wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon.” A Zelensky adviser told the AP that SpaceX fixed outages caused by the restriction, but the 100 mph speed cap, which hobbles Ukraine’s interceptor drones, remains in place.

“There needs to be an investigation. There needs to be a congressional investigation,” Rep. Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, told CBS when asked if Rubio’s explanation was enough. “We need to find out who these people are. People’s lives are at risk, and lives are lost over these things.”

Sen. Kevin Cramer also backed an inquiry, though he said it may have been “some sort of a technical glitch,” while a bipartisan group of nine senators, including Republicans Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, John Cornyn and Lisa Murkowski, asked the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate. Zelensky told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “of course the message came from government,” and “technically, SpaceX did it,” pleading “just give us back Starlink.”

This all comes as Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending sweeping Russia sanctions under the Lindsey Graham law just before they were set to take effect, drawing fire from Tillis, who called it “beyond irresponsible,” and as Trump posted Sunday that Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.”