According to Ukrinform reports, this was reported by CNN with reference to official documents it received.

“Last month, Musk’s SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon stating that it can no longer continue to fund the Starlink service. The letter also includes a request from the US Department of Defense to undertake financing for the government and military use of Starlink in Ukraine.”

SpaceX says it will cost more than $120 million by the end of the year and nearly $400 million over the next 12 months.

“We cannot continue to donate terminals to Ukraine or fund existing terminals for an indefinite period,” says the letter, signed by SpaceX’s director of government sales.

The selection of documents submitted to the Pentagon includes a request from the Armed Forces leadership to provide an additional 8,000 Starlink terminals, sent to Musk in July. SpaceX’s cover letter states that the company does not have the financial capacity to meet this demand.

CNN explains that the letters come against the background of recent reports of large-scale disruptions to Starlink’s work in areas where the Armed Forces operates during the period of active counteroffensive operations to liberate the territories occupied by Russia.

According to the news of Ukrinform, at the beginning of October, Elon Musk expressed the opinion that the result of the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine could be a nuclear war. He launched a poll on his Twitter page, in which he revealed his own formula for ending the war – in particular, he proposed holding another “referendum” on the temporarily seized Ukrainian territory and supplying water to the Crimea.

In response, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conducted his own poll on Twitter about “which Musk is more liked”: supporting Ukraine or pro-Russia?

Later, the billionaire wrote that he continues to strongly support Ukraine, but is “convinced that a massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world.”

Earlier this week, Vice published an article titled “Elon Musk spoke to Putin before tweeting a peace plan for Ukraine.” The story was based on the words of Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer, who claimed to have spoken to Musk, who said he spoke to the Kremlin leader before proposing the “peace formula” for Ukraine. In this speech, Putin seemed to have convinced Musk that he was ready to negotiate with Ukraine under certain conditions. These conditions included recognition of Crimea as Russian, Ukraine’s permanent neutral status, as well as Kiev’s recognition of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories.

However, after that, Musk denied that he had met with Putin 18 months ago and that it was about the space issue, and that he had communicated with Putin about this issue.