Elon Musk denies ordering to shut down the Starlink system near the coast of Qırım in 2022

Elon Musk claims he did not order his engineers to switch off the Starlink system along the coast of the temporarily occupied Qırım in 2022.

He wrote about this on his X (Twitter) page.

The businessman said that the network in the area had not been activated before. However, he did refuse Ukraine's request to activate Starlink "all the way to Sevastopol."

Musk is convinced that Ukraine needed the connection to "sink most of the Russian fleet." 

"If I had agreed to their request, SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation," the businessman wrote.

It will be recalled that journalist Walter Isaacson wrote in a biography about Elon Musk that the businessman secretly ordered to turn off Starlink near the Crimean coast because he feared that Russia would use nuclear weapons.