Musk confirmed his unwillingness to pay for Stralink in Ukraine and hinted that he was offended by Ambassador Melnyk

The head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, confirmed information in the media that the company is asking the Pentagon to continue to bear the cost of servicing Starlink satellite communication terminals for Ukraine, and also hinted that he was offended by Ukrainian Ambassador Andrey Melnyk. This is reported by “European truth”.

“SpaceX does not ask to compensate for the costs that have already been, but it cannot indefinitely pay for the existing system and several thousand more terminals for which the volume of data usage is almost a hundred times higher than the typical volume for a household. This is unreasonable,” Reuters quotes him.

Elon Musk also commented on a correspondent’s tweet, who noted that the news of SpaceX’s report to the Pentagon regarding Starlink’s pay for Ukraine came a few days after Musk’s “peace plan” scandal. Among many others, Ambassador to Germany Andrei Melnik reacted to Musk’s ideas, advising him to “go to hell.”

“We’re just following his advice,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

Note that the CNN material says that the corresponding letter from the company to the Pentagon was sent “last month” – respectively, in September, while a wave of indignation over Musk’s proposal to make concessions to the Russian Federation on Ukraine – when Melnik’s undiplomatic comment appeared – rose at the beginning of October.

At the same time, on October 12, after the Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov tweeted that Starlink was vital for Ukrainian infrastructure, Musk answered him: “Please. Glad to support Ukraine.”

There was also information about unexpected large-scale disruptions to Starlink during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south at the end of September. It seems that it was about the previously occupied territories, where the Ukrainian military entered during the fighting, and perhaps this was due to fuses from the misuse of Starlink by Russian forces.