This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for Innovations, Development of Education, Science and Technologies – Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, answering questions about the statement on the closure of Starlink by Mask during the media event “Broadcasting Council Summit”. Ukrinform correspondent reported that it was near Crimea.

“There’s probably always a risk that any partner will stop helping. But so that this doesn’t happen and the media doesn’t talk about it… he helped, he helped, and if he might react negatively under that pressure, I worry about that. But I hope that doesn’t happen. Believe me, that’s “I can’t talk about it. Fedorov took the necessary steps when necessary,” he said.

According to him, Musk’s contribution to the future victory of Ukraine is the “largest” among private companies. Fedorov emphasized that it is not known what would happen if there was no satellite communication.

“Imagine you no longer have any connectivity. There’s no military and no 4G and 3G network, imagine the walkie-talkies are also compromised and they have to coordinate. There’s no connectivity. How would we live without Musk? And everything else; we can capture the excitement, write tweets, etc. But the situation This will happen,” the minister added.

He also noted that when he heard elements of Russian propaganda from Musk, he, like all Ukrainians, did not perceive it positively, but the billionaire’s actions said otherwise. Ukraine has high-quality communications, high-quality traffic at affordable prices.

“There was a day when our infrastructure was bombed. It was a very difficult day in terms of planning how to get out of this situation in the coming weeks. I immediately wrote to Musk that we needed 10 thousand Starlinks. I still did not know where to find the money, what the price would be. I talked to the CEO of SpaceX He creates a chat and says he needs 10 thousand, talks about logistics. Fedorov said Musk is something like this.

At the same time, the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Innovations, Development of Education, Science and Technologies emphasized that he could not say much about this issue, because there was also the issue of state secrets.

Reportedly, information has emerged publicly that billionaire Musk secretly ordered the shutdown of Starlink near Crimea last year to thwart Ukraine’s attack on the Russian Navy. Allegedly, he feared that Moscow would respond to Ukraine’s attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons. Musk claims that he did not give his experts the task of shutting down the Starlink satellite network near the coast of occupied Crimea because they did not work there.