Walter Isaacson shared a post on X clarifying details about Elon Musk’s involvement in Ukraine after an excerpt of his book prompted backlash.
as Western governments worked to supply Kyiv with artillery and air defense systems.
Musk eventually soured on the arrangement and said"Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars," according to the book. The tech billionaire told Isaacson he was worried the Ukrainian attack on Russian vessels would provoke the Kremlin into launching a nuclear war.But in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Friday, Isaacson shared new details.
To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a…"To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not," Isaacson wrote.
Crimea is a peninsula on the Black Sea that Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and it is home to Russia's Black Sea warships. In the days following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the Black Sea fleet fired missiles on once-industrious Ukrainian coastal cities while imposing a devastating naval blockade.
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