First surface vessel attack on Crimea failed as Musk turned off connection – UP
www.pravda.com.ua
Ukraine tried for the first time to use uncrewed surface vessels against Russian vessels in Sevastopol Bay in September 2022, but 70 kilometres from the target, the connection with billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlinks was lost. It was not possible to persuade Musk to turn back on the connection, so Ukraine modified the drones.
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve heard a couple versions of this story. One is the story in the post, the other is that Crimea was not covered by Starlink, and Ukraine tried to get it covered and Musk wouldn’t.

    Do we have a definitive source that can speak to which occurred?

    • Lightdm@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Afaik the source for both of these versions is the guy who writes/wrote Musk’s current biography. He first published the stors about Musk switching starlink off, and afterwards corrected himself, to the version where Musk simply didn’t turn it on, when Ukraine asked for.
      I personally therefore think, that if you trust the author, you have to accept the second version, and if you don’t trust him you can’t accept the first one.