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To spread: the order mask was the first documented case when it deliberately lim...

Musk turned off Starlink during the Armed Forces counter -offensive in Kherson region in 2022 - Reuters

To spread: the order mask was the first documented case when it deliberately limited Starlink over the war zone. Downloading Starlink has seriously crashed in the forefront. The American billionaire Ilon Musk in the midst of the Armed Forces operations for the release of Kherson region in the fall of 2022 ordered to disconnect the satellite Internet Starlink. This is stated in the new Reuters investigation. Downloading Starlink has seriously crashed in the forefront.

The investigation states that Ilon Musk instructed the senior engineer SpaceX to deactivate the satellite coating in the Kherson area, which at that time tried to release from the invaders of Ukraine's defense forces. This complicated the work of Ukrainian defenders - the drones stopped showing video, artillery could not work properly and a lack of coordination between the units. According to the military source, this led to the breakdown of the Russian troops in the Beryslav area.

Despite the problems with the Internet, the Armed Forces were able to release part of the Kherson region and its regional center from the Russians, and the order mask became the first documented case when it deliberately limited Starlink over the war zone. Max himself denied that he gave such an order, but the Reuters interlocutors claim that the entrepreneur was allegedly afraid of nuclear escalation.