{"id":119157,"date":"2023-09-09T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/?p=119157"},"modified":"2023-09-09T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:40:26","slug":"elon-musk-blocked-ukraine-from-using-starlink-to-launch-missile-attack-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/world-news\/elon-musk-blocked-ukraine-from-using-starlink-to-launch-missile-attack-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk blocked Ukraine from using Starlink to launch missile attack on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tech mogul Elon Musk has revealed that he bloked Ukraine from using Starlink to launch a sneak drone attack at Russia, because he didn't want his service to used for an act of war. <\/p>\n
Kyiv\u2019s request to activate Starlink internet access in the Black Sea near Kremlin-annexed Crimea to power six small drone submarines packed with explosives to down a fleet of anchored Russian ships.<\/p>\n
Because he didn't want to be complicit in an act of war, and believing the attack would garner a nuclear response Musk blocked the request. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThere was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,\u201d Musk said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
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He added: \u201cIf I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation."<\/p>\n
Walter Isaacson, a Musk biographer, said in the Washington Post that in September last year: \u201cThe Ukrainian military was attempting a sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet based at Sevastopol in Crimea by sending six small drone submarines packed with explosives."<\/p>\n
Musk had \u201cspoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States \u2026 (who) had explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would lead to a nuclear response,\u201d Isaacson wrote. <\/p>\n
Musk \u201csecretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast. <\/p>\n
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"As a result, when the Ukrainian drone subs got near the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly\u201d, according to Isaacson.<\/p>\n
In another post on Thursday, Musk countered Isaacson\u2019s account. \u201cThe Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,\u201d Musk posted.<\/p>\n
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said Musk\u2019s intervention led to the deaths of civilians.<\/p>\n
Slamming his "big ego", he said: \u201cBy not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian fleet via Starlink interference, [Musk] allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, and children are being killed,\u201d Podolyak wrote on X.<\/p>\n
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