Elon Musk on Friday said Starlink would have been 'complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation' if it had agreed to an emergency request from the Ukrainian government.
Musk's statement came in response to an X user, who said, "Elon Musk covertly instructed his engineers to deactivate Starlink's satellite communications network during a MAJOR Ukrainian offensive. This action was taken to intentionally thwart a surprise attack by Ukraine against the Russian naval fleet."
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"Now we know that Musk intentionally deactivated Starlink. Ukrainian officials pleaded for the reactivation of the satellites, however Musk was concerned the attack could trigger a nuclear response from Russia," the X user wrote.
In response, Elon Musk took to X and said, "The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything."
Later, Musk posted another tweet and wrote, "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."
"If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation," he added.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine's military has heavily relied on the satellite communications network known as Starlink, crediting it with allowing front-line troops to stay in contact with their commanders.
The system is owned by SpaceX, which, with the help of private donations and US taxpayer funding, has provided Ukraine with thousands of Starlink terminals since February 2022.
According to a report with the Business Insider, a biographer who spoke to Musk said the SpaceX CEO expressed concerns about nuclear war following conversations with Russian government officials.
He also personally intervened to block Ukraine from carrying out a drone strike on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet, the report stated.
"Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes," Musk told an interviewer.
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