Musk blocks Ukraine attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet

[New Sancai Compilation and First Release] Technology billionaire Elon. Elon Musk said he thwarted a Ukrainian attack on a Russian naval base last year by rejecting a request from Kiev to launch an internet connection in the Black Sea near Moscow-annexed Crimea.

The satellite Internet service Starlink is operated by Musk's SpaceX company and has been providing communications and networks in Ukraine since February 2022, shortly after Ukraine was invaded by Russia.

Musk posted on The Russian fleet at the base."

The city of Sevastopol is the base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Musk said: "If I agree to their demands, then SpaceX will clearly be engaged in major acts of war and escalation of conflict."

Musk posted in response to Walter. An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's upcoming biography of the tech mogul.

In an excerpt published by The Washington Post, Isaacson wrote that in September 2022, “the Ukrainian military sent six small unmanned submarines filled with explosives in an attempt to sneak attack on a military base stationed in Sevastopol, Crimea. The Russian Navy fleet used Starlink to guide the submarines to their target location during the raid,"

Isaacson wrote: "Musk had a conversation with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and the ambassador made it clear to him that Ukraine's attack on Crimea would lead to the possibility of Russia retaliating with nuclear weapons."

Isaacson said that based on this, Musk secretly instructed his engineers to shut down Internet connections within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast. As a result, when Ukrainian unmanned submarines approached the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost network guidance and ran aground, losing their attack capabilities.

However, Musk disputed Isaacson's claims in another post. Musk said that Space

Former Russian President and senior security official Dmitry. Medvedev praised Musk in response to Isaacson's detailed account of the incident. “Musk is worried about a retaliatory nuclear strike,” Medvedev said in a post on The person who has enough brains, or at least in a country like the United States, he is the only one who is responsible."

Musk also called for a truce between the two sides in the conflict.

"Both sides should agree to a ceasefire. Every day, young people in Ukraine and Russia are losing their lives fighting for and losing ever-changing pockets of land. Such sacrifices are not worth it," he said in the post.

(Compiled by: Wang Huiming)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: First published by Xinsancai)