From Meanwhile in Ukraine: Elon Musk was deceived by Russian Ambassador Antonov, convincing him that Russia would launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine in case of an attack on Crimea.
This was reported by Business Insider with reference to Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson.
On the night of September 13, Ukraine launched a powerful attack on a military facility in Crimea. It was precisely such a strike, according to Musk, that should have provoked a nuclear war. Therefore, he refused to turn on Starlink in the Crimea region.
In the biography, Isaacson describes the following: When Musk learned that Starlink satellites were being used to control drones, he spoke by phone with officials, including the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov.
Antonov convinced Musk that an attack on Sevastopol would trigger a nuclear strike from Russia, in accordance with the state’s military doctrine.
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