Elon Musk thwarted Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol in 2022 by disabling Starlink – CNN

In 2022, Elon Musk secretly ordered Starlink communications off the coast of Crimea to thwart a Ukrainian attack on the Russian navy in Sevastopol.

About this informs the CNN channel, which received a fragment of Musk’s biography, written by the American journalist and writer Walter Isaacson, which will officially go on sale on September 12.

It suggests that in 2022, Musk secretly ordered his engineers to shut down the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of Crimea in order to thwart Ukraine’s attack on the Russian navy in Sevastopol using surface drones.

According to the journalist, Ukrainian underwater drones with explosives allegedly “approached the Russian fleet”, but then “harmlessly washed ashore”.

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Isaacson writes that Musk’s decision was prompted by the fear of retaliation from Russia. The head of SpaceX allegedly spoke with Russian officials and was sure after these conversations that Russia could use nuclear weapons in a similar situation.

The biography cites the words of the billionaire, who explained that the satellite network is not designed for conflict.

“Starlink was created so that people can watch Netflix, relax, connect to the Internet at school, do peaceful things, and not carry out drone strikes,” the article says.

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The Ukrainian side allegedly tried to convince the businessman, but he did not give in.

At the same time, CNN was unable to get a comment from Elon Musk himself and confirm the published information.

We will remind:

On July 30, 2023, it became known that the US Department of Defense will buy 400-500 Starlink terminals from Musk’s company, during the use of which the department will be able to determine where and how they can be used.