Elon Musk claimed that he turned down a proposal from the Ukrainian government to turn on his Starlink satellite network near Sevastopol, the port city of Crimea, last year in order to support an assault on the Russian navy there, citing his concern over being implicated in a “major” act of war.
The billionaire businessman made the comment on his social media platform X after CNN highlighted an excerpt from a recent biography of Musk that claims he ordered the Starlink network turn off near the Crimean coast last year in order to thwart the Ukrainian covert operation.
Musk wrote on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that he had to turn down a last-minute request from Ukraine “to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.” Both he and the excerpt omitted to include the request’s date.
“The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” Musk states. “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
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