US EditionElon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin directly, Pentagon official says
- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly spoke personally to Russian President Vladimir Putin about supplying satellite-based internet to Ukraine's military, as Ukrainian forces were losing connection to the service in contested territory.
- Musk's conversation with Putin was aimed at placating Russian concerns about Starlink's involvement in enabling the Ukrainian war effort, according to Colin Kahl, the former top policy official at the Pentagon.
- Musk had previously denied speaking to Putin, but the report revives the controversy surrounding his Russia-Ukraine peace plans, which caused Ukrainian troops to experience Starlink outages and led to Musk threatening to stop funding Ukraine's access to the service.
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Основатель SpaceX и владелец Twitter Илон Маск рассказывал представителям Пентагона, что лично разговаривал с президентом России Владимиром Путиным. Об этом говорится в материале The New Yorker о бизнесмене. В частности, Маск упоминал о своих контактах с Путиным во время телефонного разговора в октябре 2022 года с Колином Калем, который тогда занимал пост заместителя министра обороны США.
According to the “New Yorker,” the entrepreneur told the Pentagon about the conversation as part of the Starlink negotiations. Shortly thereafter, he also published his “peace plan.”
Musk said he spoke to Putin as Ukraine was cut off from Starlink - report
Elon Musk told Pentagon officials during a call about the satellite-based internet that SpaceX supplies to Ukraine’s military that he’d spoken personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New Yorker reported.
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