Elon Musk. File photoWASHINGTON, Oct 7Businessman Elon Musk calculated how much it costs his company to provide Ukraine with Starlink Internet communications, but declined to comment on reports of non-functioning satellites in the war zone. «As for what is happening on the battlefield, this is confidential information,» Musk wrote on his Twitter account. responding to a Financial Times reporter that the Ukrainian military reported that there were outages with Starlink devices on the front lines. Ukrainian troops in the past few weeks and caused panic among the military. It is noted that problems with the operation of the devices were serious in the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, they were also observed in the Kharkov region and during the activities of Ukrainian troops against the troops of the DPR and LPR. In Ukraine, it is suggested that the system's attempts to prevent its interception by Russian forces could be the cause of the interruptions. Commenting on the journalist's article, Musk praised it as «poor reporting work.» «This article incorrectly reports that Starlink terminals and services have been paid for, when only a small part was paid. Their work costs SpaceX $ 80 million, by the end of the year the amount will exceed $ 100 million,» Musk wrote earlier this week. issued a series of tweets in which he actually proposed a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. The outrageous businessman said that he doubted the possibility of Ukraine's victory in the event of a full-scale war with Russia, and called on the parties to peace. His «plan» involves «re-voting» in the Donbass «under UN supervision», keeping Crimea «a formal part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (before Khrushchev's mistake)», guaranteeing Crimea's water supply, and Ukraine's neutral status.
Musk called himself a big fan of Ukraine
