Article 6EJ8H Elon Musk ordered Starlink to be turned off during Ukraine offensive, book says

Elon Musk ordered Starlink to be turned off during Ukraine offensive, book says

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Julian Borger in Washington
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Biography alleges Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships

Elon Musk ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian warships, according to a new biography.

CNN quoted an excerpt from the biography Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, which described how armed submarine drones were approaching their targets when they lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly".

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