Billionaire Elon Musk had secretly ordered his engineers to deactivate the Starlink satellite so as not to facilitate the communications of the Ukrainians committed to attacking Russia in Crimea. This is what emerges in the biography “Elon Musk” written by Walter Isaacson and of which some extracts have been published.
While drones loaded with explosives were about to approach Russian ships last year, communication suddenly disappeared. The Ukrainians had asked a
Musk to immediately reactivate the satellite but the billionaire was afraid that the attack would provoke a response from Vladimir Putin, determined to use nuclear power. “How should I behave in this war?” Musk asked Isaacson. The billionaire said he had lent Starlink when the Russians had blacked out the Ukrainian telephone network before the invasion in February 2022 but that he had doubts when he saw that the Ukrainians had begun to use the satellite to lead the offensive on the Russians .
