it’s about it stated He reported Ukrinform on his Twitter page on Monday.

“SpaceX has already withdrawn its funding request,” Musk said.

This is how he reacted to the controversy that arose on the social platform after SpaceX announced that it wanted the US Department of Defense to take over the payment for satellite internet services provided by Starlink terminals in Ukraine. Musk later clarified that he did not seek reimbursement of the costs already incurred, but that he was unable to continuously finance the operation of the transferred terminals, which would cost the company more than $120 million by the end of the year and approximately $400 million over the next 12 months. .

After outcry caused by the posts of the SpaceX founder, the Ukrainian government announced on Saturday that it has decided to keep its free funding. And this Monday, Musk announced that he will be creating a feature. donations He said on Starlink’s checkout page and that his company eventually closed the issue and formally withdrew his request for funding from the US Department of Defense.

As reported by Ukrinform, American billionaire Elon Musk on Monday made another statement about the threat of nuclear war in case of occupation of the Crimean Peninsula. In response to his post, OPU adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called such a strategy “suspicious”, noting that it would surrender to the Russian Federation and at the same time allow it to steal foreign territories, while at the same time threatening the world with nuclear weapons.