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September 8, 2023

New Book Says Elon Musk Intervened to Thwart Attack by Ukraine on Russian-Occupied Crimea
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In more news about Ukraine, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of internet
satellite provider Space X, secretly ordered his company to deactivate
its Starlink satellites as they passed above Russian-occupied Crimea
last year, in order to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian
naval fleet. That's according to an excerpt of a soon-to-be-published
biography written by Walter Isaacson, who reports Musk's decision
prevented Ukrainian submarine drones from reaching their intended
target, Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Musk reportedly feared Russia would
respond to an attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons. According to
Isaacson, Musk said at the time, "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."


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