Elon Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official

Ukrainian presidential adviser says deaths of civilians the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego'

A senior Ukrainian official has accused Elon Musk of committing evil" after a new biography revealed details about how the business magnate 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.

In a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk owns, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote that Musk's interference led to the deaths of civilians, calling them the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego".