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“If I die under mysterious circumstances, it was nice to meet you.” The verdict was written by Elon Musk on Twitter shortly after he also posted a text that he said was written by the head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, accusing Musk of “involvement in the supply of military communications space equipment.” fascist forces in Ukraine.
If I die under mysterious circumstances, it would be nice to know you.
In the text, a Russian official guaranteed that Elon Musk would be “held to account as an adult” for defending Ukraine and therefore against the Russian regime, leading to a response and warning from the Tesla owner, six minutes later, with an exchange of threats from Dmitry Rogozin , first in Russian and then in English.
From I agree with the Independent, Musk even responded in a Russian publication: “I will do my best to stay alive,” suggesting that he could have been killed because of his position on the side of Ukraine.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and executive chairman of Tesla, did not insist on staying out of the war and even challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a two-man fight. On social media, Musk wrote: “I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to a one-on-one fight. Ukraine is at stake. on one tweet later, in which he named the Kremlin’s official account, insisted, resorting to the question: “Do you accept this fight?”
More about the war, there is Elon Musk’s company that helps Ukrainians. Starlink satellites are often the only available source of internet connection in Ukraine. The country has already received thousands of these small satellites from various Western partners, which have proven to be “quite effective,” according to Ukraine’s Digital Transition Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in an interview with The Washington Post.
With the invasion starting and with the help of Twitter, Fedorov asked Elon Musk to help the country, and the American replied a few hours later: “The Starlink service is already active in Ukraine. More terminals are on the way. The help was acknowledged and Anton Melnik, a spokesman for the Digital Transition Ministry, thanked Musk for the gesture in a post on his Twitter account.
The invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine was carried out using tactics that included the bombing of cities, the use of counterintelligence and strikes against specific logistics targets of Ukrainian society. Often without fuel, medical equipment, water and food, Ukrainians who shared their country’s events on social media also faced problems accessing the Internet.
To meet this particular challenge, these satellites have become a lifesaver for many Ukrainian citizens in a war that, for the first time, is also taking on a large-scale digital dimension.
