MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, confirmed this Monday that he has no intention of cutting off the Starlink satellite communications service of his company SpaceX that he offers to the Ukrainian authorities, even if they do not finally have funding from the United States Pentagon. Joined.
“Before the Pentagon sends a response, I told Mikhail Fedorov (Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation) that SpaceX would not shut down Starlink even if the US Department of Defense refuses to provide funds,” the tycoon wrote on Twitter. .
This statement by Musk has been applauded by Fedorov, who has thanked him on Twitter and on behalf of Ukraine for maintaining this “vital importance” support.
A few weeks ago, the US media reported that Musk had asked the Pentagon to take over Ukraine’s bills for the service of the more than 20,000 Starlink terminals that he had initially ceded.
Although the tycoon clarified that he had not claimed reimbursement of the first costs, he stressed that his company could not constantly afford these services, because the losses would amount to up to 120 million dollars by the end of the year and up to 400 million dollars for the next twelve months.
