2023-09-08 14:52:08
Ukraine accused the American billionaire and owner of the Starlink satellite network, Elon Musk, of facilitating the murder of civilians and children with his decision to disable satellites of this type used by the Ukrainian Army.
Ukrainian presidential advisor Mijailo Podoliak accused the American billionaire and owner of the Starlink satellite network, Elon Musk, of facilitating the murder of civilians and children with his decision to disable satellites of this type used by the Ukrainian Army so that it could not attack the Russian fleet off the Crimean coast.
“Sometimes a mistake is much more than a mistake. By not allowing, with Starlink interference, the Ukrainian drones to destroy a part of the Russian military fleet, Elon Musk allowed this fleet to launch Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,” wrote Podoliak on the social network X, which is also owned by Musk.
The advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, who is often in charge of communicating the harshest and most uncomfortable positions of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration, added that “there are civilians, children dying” as a consequence of Musk’s decision.
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Podoliak posted this message after a new biography of Musk has revealed that the owner of Starlink asked his engineers to disable Starlink satellites used by Ukraine to thwart an attack by Ukrainian forces against the Russian military fleet near the coast of Crimea.
According to the book, Musk ignored the Ukrainians’ pleas to reestablish connectivity and ended up thwarting the attack. The billionaire would have made this decision out of fear that Russia would respond with nuclear weapons to an attack on Crimea.
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