SpaceX refuses to finance Starlink services in Ukraine-mass media

Elon Musk's SpaceX company has announced that it can no longer continue to finance the Starlink service in Ukraine. This is reported by CNN, quoting SpaceX's letter to the Pentagon.

The letter also asks the Pentagon to take over funding for Ukraine's government and military use of the Starlink system, which SpaceX says will cost more than 1 120 million by the end of the year and could cost about.400 million over the next 12 months.

"We cannot continue to donate terminals to Ukraine or finance existing terminals for an indefinite period of time," SpaceX's director of government sales wrote in a letter to the Pentagon.

Among the SpaceX documents sent to the Pentagon, as CNN notes, there is a direct request made to Musk in July by the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, for the provision of almost 8,000 more Starlink terminals.

Currently, about 20,000 units of Starlink satellite communications have been transferred to Ukraine. Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that " the operation cost SpaceX 8 80 million and will exceed.100 million by the end of the year."