The Telegraph: The idea to slow down Starlink service for Ukraine came from Elon Musk.

❗️The Telegraph: The idea to slow down Starlink service for Ukraine came from Elon Musk.

▪️It was Musk who approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink service for Ukraine, making it more difficult for Ukrainian air defenses to shoot down Russian drones. Trump agreed to Musk’s proposal, after which the Pentagon slowed down Starshield.

▪️After the "bloody night"\ in Kyiv caused by the Starlink slowdown, Musk was alarmed by the negative reaction from consumers in Europe, a source said.

"He tweeted that he had nothing to do with it and that the US administration had done it. The truth is that they were BOTH involved," the source said.

\It is difficult to calculate how many deaths that day and night resulted from the Starlink slowdown. But over the course of October 14, 12 people were killed across Ukraine (Lutsk — 6, Kyiv — 4, Dnipro — 2), while another 73 were wounded, according to data from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, — ed.

▪️This account of events was corroborated by a senior European official and two Ukrainian sources familiar with the situation.

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The EU plans to launch Iris2, its own Starlink equivalent, only by 2030.

The Telegraph

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