SpaceX’s chief government officer Elon Musk advised Pentagon officers that he had spoken personally to Russian president Vladimir Putin concerning the satellite-based web SpaceX provides to Ukraine’s army, the New Yorker reported. Elon Musk advised Colin Kahl, then the Pentagon’s high coverage official, throughout an October dialog about Ukrainian forces dropping connection to House Exploration Applied sciences Corp.’s Starlink service as they entered territory contested by Russia, the report claimed.
“My inference was that he was getting nervous that Starlink’s involvement was more and more seen in Russia as enabling the Ukrainian conflict effort, and was in search of a option to placate Russian issues,” Colin Kahl advised the New Yorker.
Colin Kahl returned to a place at Stanford College final month.
In October, Elon Musk denied that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin. In a put up on Twitter, the social media platform since renamed X, the billionaire wrote that he’d spoken to the Russian president solely as soon as, roughly 18 months earlier, about area.
The report revives the controversy that erupted after Elon Musk posted so-called Russia-Ukraine peace plans that the Kremlin praised and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized. After this, Ukrainian troops reported Starlink outages and Elon Musk threatened to cease funding Ukraine’s entry to the service.
