The shift comes a day after Musk confirmed on Twitter that the closely held company had told the Pentagon it couldn’t indefinitely fund the system that’s helped Ukraine combat against Russia’s invasion.
The Defense Department confirmed Friday it was in talks with SpaceX while pointedly adding that the US is“The hell with it,” Musk tweeted Saturday. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
Ukraine has 20,000 Starlink terminals that have been provided evenly by USAID, Poland, the European Union and private companies, according to an Oct. 5 report from state-run news agency Ukrinform that cited Ministry of Digitalisation data. Musk angered Ukrainians by suggesting last week that the country should seek a negotiated solution to the invasion by Russia that would include ceding Crimea — which was annexed by Moscow in 2014 — for good.
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