Elon Musk denies US funding to Starlink in Ukraine, says other people are helping

Washington. The world’s richest billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his company Starlink’s service has not received any funding from the US Department of Defense to maintain the Internet in Ukraine. Such reports are coming out that the US Department of Defense ‘Pentagon’ is considering providing funds for the Starlink satellite network in war-torn Ukraine.

A day after this, Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX’s free service in Ukraine and spending related to security measures for cybersecurity is causing a loss of about $ 20 million per month, according to a Reuters news. Will continue to bear this expense. Musk said that no money has been received from the US Defense Department. But many other countries, many organizations and individuals are paying for about 11 thousand terminals in 25 thousand terminals in Ukraine.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and chief executive of Tesla Inc., said SpaceX spends about $20 million a month maintaining satellite services in Ukraine and that the company has yet to continue to service the Internet in Ukraine. Spent about $80 million. While Politico said in a report on Monday that the US Defense Department ‘Pentagon’ is considering funding to continue Starlink’s Internet service in Ukraine.

Pentagon considering funding Elon Musk’s Starlink network in Ukraine

Citing two American officials involved in the discussion, it was said that the Pentagon could give money to Elon Musk’s company. Significantly, Elon Musk said a few days ago that due to lack of funds, he could not continue free internet service in Ukraine for long. After this he retracted from his statement and said that Starlink’s service will continue in Ukraine.

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