The head of the Ministry of Digital Development did not give permission to publish correspondence about Starlink.
In the biography American billionaire, founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk, published private messages from Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. The Ukrainian official did not provide permission for their publication.
Fedorov told the Financial Times about this.
“This is not very nice. I have never made public or talked about our correspondence [with Musk] publicly,” the minister said.
The author of a fictionalized biography of the American billionaire, Walter Isaacson, in his book, in particular, says, how Musk intervened to cut off the Ukrainian military's access to Starlink and this prevented a secret Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Crimea.
A fragment of this book was published in Isaacson's column in the Washington Post, it also contains text messages in which Fedorov begs Musk to restore Starlink communications for the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Mikhail Fedorov noted that a year has passed since these messages , so their publication is unlikely to have any negative consequences.
He also noted that Musk told him that he turned off the Starlink service on the front line in southeastern Ukraine when Fedorov asked him to turn on the connection to the entire territory of Ukraine – in Crimea and to the borders as of 1991.
“When I turned it on, I wrote that I turned it on again,” Fedorov added.
Let us remind you that there was a temporary stoppage of work Starlink, which occurred at a crucial moment in Ukraine's counteroffensive last fall, was attributed by Musk's biographer to an existential fear of Russian use of nuclear weapons and a global conflict that would destroy all of humanity. Subsequently, Musk clarified that the system in this area was not turned on and he rejected Ukraine's request to activate it due to fears of a possible attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the Russian fleet.
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