{"id":41215,"date":"2023-09-11T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41215"},"modified":"2023-09-12T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:56:37","slug":"elon-musk-blocked-ukraines-drone-attack-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/elon-musk-blocked-ukraines-drone-attack-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk blocked Ukraine&#8217;s drone attack on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, personally ordered the company&#8217;s Starlink satellite broadband service to be withheld in parts of Ukraine, scuttling a major offensive operation by the nation against Russia.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">According to a biography about Musk, shared with CNN, the billionaire feared that a Ukrainian attack on Russian naval ships near Crimea could lead to a &#8220;mini-Pearl Harbor&#8221; and a nuclear response from the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">The incident also led Musk to deny Ukrainian requests for additional Starlink systems that could be used for offensive purposes against Russia. It also had a profound impact on Ukraine&#8217;s military plans against Russia in 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">Musk has said that Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars and that it was designed for &#8220;peaceful things&#8221; like watching Netflix and getting online for school.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The Ukrainian government on its part has argued that Starlink is a critical tool for its citizens and that Musk&#8217;s decision to block its use was a violation of its neutrality agreement with SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/09\/07\/musk_biography_excerpt\/?td=rt-3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheRegister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, personally ordered the company&#8217;s Starlink satellite broadband service to be withheld in parts of Ukraine, scuttling a major offensive operation by the nation against Russia. According to a biography about Musk, shared with CNN, the billionaire feared that a Ukrainian attack on Russian naval ships near Crimea could lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-41215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operations","tag-starlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41217,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions\/41217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}