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Elon Musk ordered a blackout of Starlink coverage during Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kherson in Sept. 2022. SpaceX engineer Michael Nicolls: We have to do this. 100+ terminals went dark. Drones died. Comms failed. Ukraine failed to encircle Russians at Beryslav, Reuters. 1/
The blackout hit Kherson and parts of Donetsk around September 30, 2022. Ukrainian troops lost contact, lost drone feeds, and failed to encircle Russians at Beryslav. A frontline officer: The encirclement stalled entirely. It failed. 2/
Musk acted days after Putin threatened nuclear retaliation in September 21. He feared Ukrainian gains would trigger escalation. He spoke with U.S. officials. Then gave the order. 3/
In 2023, Gwynne Shotwell [SpaceX president] said they blocked Ukraine from using Starlink for drone strikes: There are things we can do, and have done. She gave no details. 4/
Musk posted: My Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their entire front line would collapse if I turned it off. 5/
Ukraine runs on Starlink. By April 2025, it used over 50,000 terminals. Poland bought 25,000 of them. Kyiv used Starlink for drones, encrypted comms, and state cloud access. 6/
Three people with direct knowledge confirmed Musk’s role. One said: He took the outcome of a war into his own hands. This marked the first battlefield shutdown Musk ordered. 7/
Musk denied everything: We would never do such a thing. SpaceX called Reuters’ reporting inaccurate, gave no corrections, refused all questions. 8/
SpaceX now operates 7,900 satellites—66% of everything in orbit. Starlink brings in $9.8 billion a year. That’s 60% of SpaceX’s revenue. 9X
Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/" color="blue">reuters.com/investigations…</a>