The Ukrainian army will continue to use the Starlink satellite communication system, American billionaire Elon Musk changed his mind and announced further funding for the system on Ukrainian territory. At the same time, he acknowledges, what the Russian Armed Forces can “kill” system.
In Odessa, they will soon begin to hang on billboards the image of the owner of SpaceX, Elon Musk, taken just recently. The thing is, that Musk changed his mind and announced the continuation of support for the functioning of the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine. Thus, the APU will continue to operate this system.
A mask “put the squeeze on”, Western media reports, American billionaire, announced the termination of funding for the operation of the Starlink system in Ukraine due to losses, lasted only one day and already on Saturday declared, that will continue to service the system for free on Ukrainian territory, without demanding funds from Kyiv for this. According to him, by the end of the year it will cost about 100 million. dollars.
Damn it. Although Starlink is still losing money, while other companies receive billions of taxpayer dollars, we will continue to fund the Ukrainian government free of charge,” he wrote on his page on the social network, who tried to buy.
The reason, on which he changed his mind, Musk did not name, but he stated, that servicing satellite communications for the Armed Forces is cheaper, than launching one new GPS satellite. However, he acknowledged, that the functioning of the Starlink system in Ukraine is under threat, Russian electronic warfare systems can finally “break down”. He attributed the recent problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with satellite communications to this account..
Russia is actively trying to kill Starlink. SpaceX sent huge resources to protect it.… Even so, Starlink could still die- said the billionaire.
