Ukrainian official claims Elon Musk cost lives by refusing Starlink access during a drone operation

Excerpts from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography are coming to light ahead of its release next week, revealing some new details about the billionaire’s decision to amid the country’s war with Russia. According to an excerpt reported on, Musk allegedly told SpaceX workers to shut down Starlink access close to the Crimea coast to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s naval fleet.

Musk, who has reportedly been in contact with Russian officials , is said to have been worried that the attack would lead to Russia retaliating with nuclear weapons. Ukrainian leaders seemingly begged Musk to reactivate Starlink access but drones that were approaching Russian warships “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” CNN cites Isaacson as stating.

Musk’s alleged actions have had significant consequences for Ukraine, according to Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Podolyak (the platform formerly known as Twitter that Musk owns) that in preventing drones from attacking the Russian ships, Musk enabled them to fire missiles at Ukrainian cities. “As a result, civilians, children are being killed,” Podolyak claimed. “This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego.”

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According to Musk, however, Starlink was not active in those areas and so SpaceX . “There 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,” he . “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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Regardless of how he’s framing the situation, Musk has admitted to making another decision that has impacted the Ukraine-Russia conflict in one way or another. A report late last year indicated that around 1,300 Starlink terminals Ukraine was using due to a dispute over payments for the internet service.

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