According to the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, Kiev expects SpaceX to provide a stable connection until the end of negotiationsKIEV, October 14.
/tass/. Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak promised to find a way to finance the operation of the Starlink satellite communication system produced by the American company SpaceX in Ukraine and without funding from the founder of the company Elon Musk.
Earlier, Musk confirmed that SpaceX cannot indefinitely continue to pay for Starlink's work in Ukraine. The businessman added that this decision followed after the current ambassador of Ukraine to Berlin, Andriy Melnyk, who is leaving his post this week, advised him to "fuck off" using an obscene expression in English. "We are just following the recommendation," Musk wrote on Twitter.
"Business has the right to its own strategies. Ukraine will find a solution so that Starlink continues to work. We expect that the company will provide a stable connection until the end of the negotiations," Podolyak said on Twitter on Friday. According to him, Musk helped Ukraine "survive" the most critical moments of the fighting.
On October 3, Elon Musk spoke on Twitter about how he sees the conditions of peace in Ukraine. As a first step, Musk proposed holding referendums under the supervision of the UN in the territories that recently joined Russia. In his opinion, Crimea will officially be part of Russia, and Ukraine can adopt a neutral status. Melnik, in response to the publication of the entrepreneur about his proposals on options for resolving the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, posted an obscene comment.
Earlier, CNN received a letter in which SpaceX notified the US Department of Defense that it would stop paying for the operation of the Starlink system in Ukraine and did not plan to provide Kiev with new terminals for an indefinite time. According to the TV company, the document also contained a request to the US Defense Ministry to take over the payment for the supply of additional Starlink terminals to Kiev, as well as financing the operation of the system in the interests of the Ukrainian authorities and the military. In total, we are talking about the allocation of $ 124 million through the Pentagon by the end of this year, according to CNN.
