Musk 'switched off Starlink in Ukraine over nuclear fears' - updated

Russian officials scared billionaire with 'mini Pearl Harbour' scenario

Tom Allen
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Starlink had allegedly spent $80 million sending equipment to Ukraine by October 2022
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Starlink had allegedly spent $80 million sending equipment to Ukraine by October 2022

A new biography, simply titled Elon Musk, claims that the billionaire secretly ordered engineers to turn off the Starlink satellite network near the Crimean coast last year, to disrupt a Ukrainian ...

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