Elon Musk has refused Pentagon funding to get Starlink to operate in Ukraine. This is about the founder of SpaceX. reported on the Twitter social network. American businessman Elon Musk said he has already donated $100 million to Ukraine. He wrote this while commenting on yesterday’s post by Stephen King, who offered to donate $8 per “tick” to the Serhiy Prytula Foundation on Twitter.

“I donated 100 million dollars to Ukraine, how much did you donate?“, the businessman replied to this.

Message from Elon Musk on Pentagon’s money

Elon Musk also said that he refused to receive money from the US Department of Defense to keep Starlink working in Ukraine.

“By the way, we refused MO moneyMusk wrote the following in his comments to Stephen King’s post.

Let’s remind, in October 2022, it was reported that Elon Musk promised to provide Starlink for Ukraine in any case. Then Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov thanked Elon Musk for this word. Dialogue took place in the comments made to the news that the EU can provide funds for the payment of Starlink services in our country.

However, on October 14 last year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX company announced that it could no longer pay for Starlink communications services for Ukraine and asked the Pentagon to take over. According to SpaceX, funding will cost more than $120 million by the end of 2022 and could cost around $400 million over the next 12 months.