Elon Musk claims he prevented escalation of Russia-Ukraine war

An excerpt of the biography of Elon Musk written by Walter Issacson regarding SpaceX being approached by Ukrainian authorities for the activation of Starlink services along Crimea where a Russian submarine was stationed  was published in the Washington Post. 

Elon Musk had posted “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” on X (formerly known as Twitter) on 8th September in response to the article.

“If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” he added. 

“The Ukrainian military was attempting a sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet based at Sevastopol in Crimea by sending six small drone submarines packed with explosives, and it was using Starlink to guide them to the target. Musk had “spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States who had explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would lead to a nuclear response. Musk “secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometres of the Crimean coast. As a result, when the Ukrainian drone subs got near the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” Issacon had written in the biography. 

“Musk was concerned about a retaliatory nuclear strike. If what Isaacson has written in his book is true, then it looks like Musk is the last adequate mind in North America. Or, at the very least, in gender-neutral America, he is the one with the balls,” Russia’s ex-president and senior security official Dmitry Medvedev said pertaining to the issue.