The Russian invasion.

Elon Musk / Volodymyr Zelensky. TT  

 

The Russian invasion|The response of the outside world 

Kyiv on Musk: "The result is dead children and civilians"  

 

Kyiv is attacking Elon Musk after reports that he prevented a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships by shutting down the Starlink satellite network around the Crimean peninsula.  

 

Mychajlo Podoljak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, believes that Musk's decision ultimately led to the killing of civilians by Russian robots fired from the warships.  

 

"Sometimes a mistake is more than a mistake. […] The result is that civilians and children are killed. This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and a big ego," writes Podoljak on X, formerly Twitter. 

 

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk admitted on Friday that he rejected a Ukrainian request to activate Starlink on the Krym peninsula. However, he denies that he actively shut down the network.  

 

 

Elon Musk / Russian military ships at the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. TT  

 

The Russian invasion. The outside world's response  

Musk admits stopped attack - but did not shut down the network 

 

Elon Musk admits that through his company Space X, he rejected a request from Ukrainian authorities to activate the Starlink satellite network around the Crimean Peninsula. This is to prevent a Ukrainian attack on Russian ships with naval drones, he writes on X, formerly Twitter. 

 

"If I had agreed to their request, Space X would have been involved in a serious act of war and escalation of conflict." 

 

On the same platform, he also denies that he prevented the attack by actively shutting down Starlink. 

 

“These Starlink areas had not been activated. Space X didn't turn anything off," he writes.  

 

 

American battleship USS Shaw is bombed during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Ap 

 

Details from the book: Musk in talks with Moscow - afraid of "mini-Pearl Harbor"  

 

After talks with high-ranking Russian officials, Elon Musk feared that a Ukrainian attack on Russian targets in Crimea would lead to Moscow responding with nuclear weapons, writes author Walter Isaacson in a new biography of the tech billionaire according to CNN. Musk is said to have described it as being afraid of a "mini-Pearl Harbor".  

 

This concern is said to have been the reason why, according to Isaacson, he told employees to shut down the Starlink satellite network when Ukraine was in the process of shelling Russian ships with naval drones.  

 

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk admitted on Friday that he rejected a Ukrainian request to activate Starlink on the Krym peninsula. However, he denies that he actively shut down the network.