 "'At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea': Elon Musk hits back at Ukrainian accusations")
Elon Musk Saturday hit back at Ukrainian accusation of not allowing their drones ‘to destroy part of the Russian fleet’ off the Crimean coast via Starlink satellite. A Ukrainian official Friday accused Musk of “committing evil” by not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military fleet via Starlink interference. He held Musk responsible for Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities from the same fleet. “By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military fleet via Starlink interference, Elon Musk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, and children are being killed,” he wrote on X.
Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake. By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, children are…
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) September 7, 2023
The accusation came after CNN Thursday quoted an excerpt from an upcoming biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. The biography revealed how Ukrainian armed submarines approached a Russian fleet near the coast of Crimea “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly”. While Musk was being accused of cutting off Ukrainian forces in the middle of an operation, the biography writer Isaacson Friday clarified that Musk didn’t order to cut coverage over Crimea. He said coverage wasn’t enabled all the way to Crimea as the Ukrainians thought.
To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a…
— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) September 9, 2023
“At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea,” Musk said while sharing the post.
Much appreciated, Walter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2023
The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine.
At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea.
Moreover, our terms of service clearly… https://t.co/jmNtScM5LY
Earlier Thursday Musk said the Ukrainian government requested to “activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol” in Crimea. However, he denied the request as he believed helping the Ukrainian forces “sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor” would have escalated the conflict and made SpaceX “explicitly complicit in a major act of war.”
There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.
If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and…
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