Representative of the Democratic Party, current US Senator Elizabeth Warren, demanded an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk decided to limit the operation of the Starlink satellite Internet near Crimea by disrupting Ukraine’s attack on the Russian Navy. His words lead the way Bloomberg.
“Congress needs to investigate what happened and whether we have adequate tools to ensure that foreign policy is driven by the government and not by a billionaire.” [Илоном Маском]” said Warren.
He also asked the US Department of Defense to review its “contractual relationship” with SpaceX.
Information that Musk cut off Starlink communications for Ukrainian soldiers during the attack on the Russian fleet in Crimea first appeared in the biography of the billionaire written by journalist Walter Isaacson. This piece received widespread coverage after it was broadcast by CNN. Musk later explained that he disabled Starlink during the attack so that his company, SpaceX, would not be directly complicit in a major military incident.
Starlink founder Musk later stated: conflict on charges of treason against him. The billionaire wrote this on X (Twitter).
“I am a US citizen and I have a passport belonging only to this country. No matter what, I will continue to fight for America and my life will end with it. The US Congress did not start a war with Russia. “If anyone is a traitor, it’s the ones who call me so,” Musk wrote.
Previously Ukrainian intelligence evaluated Musk’s words that he blocked Starlink for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Crimea.