The American billionaire and inventor, the founder of SpaceX ,

Elon Musk

, who supported Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, today calls on Kyiv to actually surrender, and his company no longer wants to finance Starlink communications in Ukraine.

The billionaire says that he does not want the conflict to escalate into a nuclear war, but experts do not rule out that such a change in Musk's position may be the result of the influence of Russian special services.

The mass media even reported that Musk discussed his "peace plan" personally with the President of the Russian Federation,

Vladimir Putin

.

TSN.ua found out how Elon Musk's views have changed and what is behind it.

Starlink communication problems

In September, Elon Musk's company SpaceX

asked the Pentagon to take over the financing of government and military use of Starlink satellite communications in Ukraine

.

In a related letter, which was made public by CNN, SpaceX said it could no longer continue funding Starlink in Ukraine.

The company said that more than $120 million is needed to pay for services by the end of 2022 and about $400 million over the next 12 months.

"We are unable to continue donating terminals to Ukraine or financing existing terminals for an indefinite period of time," the letter states.

The letters came amid recent reports from the Ukrainian military about large-scale Starlink disruptions that could have affected a counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Many such interruptions were recorded during the breakthrough of the front line by the Ukrainian military into the occupied territory.

And some problems were fixed during battles.

Scandalous "peace proposals"

On October 3, the founder of the SpaceX company, Elon Musk, embarrassed the public with a scandalous statement regarding the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

He proposed holding a "repeat vote" on Ukrainian territories illegally captured by Russia

.

Musk also stated that Russia is carrying out partial mobilization, therefore "Ukraine's victory in a total war is unlikely."

In addition, he wrote that "in the eastern regions, the majority of the population prefers Russia."

Musk launched a vote on his Twitter regarding pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories and the issue of Crimea.

Let's try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they're part of Russia or Ukraine

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022

In response, the President of Ukraine,

Volodymyr Zelensky

, posted his humorous vote on Twitter:

Which Elon Musk do you like better:

  • When supporting Ukraine;

  • When he supports Russia.

Which @elonmusk do you like more?

— Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) October 3, 2022

On October 7, Musk wrote that he is "a fan of Ukraine, but not of the Third World War."

Ukrainian users of social networks reacted to Mask's statements with memes and ironic posts. 

TSN.ua collected the best of them

.

In his turn, volunteer and showman 

Serhiy Prytula 

offered Ukrainians to buy a history textbook for the inventor.

The Russian trace in Musk's statements: the main versions

Human rights activist, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security 

Pavlo Lysyansky

believes that Musk could have made his scandalous statement about Ukraine at the request of Russia's special services, which recruit public opinion leaders around the world.

"They started mobilizing opinion leaders. 

Look at Elon Musk - it was done on purpose to put it on the agenda

. Everyone started discussing it as an alternative. Elon Musk is the highest level... They buy actively in the West in different countries of leaders public opinion at all levels - trade unions are mobilizing, other platforms to whitewash the Russian Federation... This is a huge network of agents of influence," Lysyanskyi said.

According to the expert, 

the Russian Federation is "gradually moving into the political plane of resolving the issue of ending the war in Ukraine

."

Before publishing a series of scandalous tweets about the war in Ukraine, Elon Musk consulted with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vice writes.

American political scientist and founder of the consulting company Eurasia Group

Ian Bremmer

told the publication that Musk himself admitted to him about Putin's readiness "for negotiations."

It is noted that the dictator is "ready for negotiations", but only if Crimea remains occupied by the Russian Federation, if Ukraine recognizes Russia's illegal annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Putin also demands from Ukraine a form of permanent neutrality.

According to Bremmer, Musk said that Putin told him that 

these goals would be achieved "no matter what

. "

In particular, with the possibility of

 using nuclear weapons

if the Armed Forces enter Crimea.

Bremmer also claims that Musk 

refused Ukraine to activate

Starlink

 satellite Internet 

on the territory of the occupied peninsula.

Musk himself denied on Twitter that he spoke with Putin shortly before writing his "peace plan."

The inventor claims that he spoke with the dictator only once - 18 months ago.

The topic of conversation was space.

Telegram channel Generall SVR published an exotic version of events.

According to the channel's authors, Elon Musk really communicated with a person who pretended to be Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And that was about a month ago.

This is what they write:

"The first deputy head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation Serhiy Kirienko during the report informed Putin that Elon Musk was looking for an opportunity to communicate with the president. Putin then unequivocally expressed his opposition to communication, but Kirienko offered the following option

: with Putin's permission, a person would communicate with Elon Musk

pretending to be the president of Russia

and will try to convince Musk of the correctness of the positions of the Russian leadership,

making him (Mask) practically an agent of influence, not only on the millions of ordinary people who admire Elon, but also on the American establishment

.

And the Kremlin, by the way, soon reacted to Mask's statements.

If this is true, the American Elon was simply circled around the finger.

And also, as the channel claims, they took an "honest word" from the billionaire that this conversation will be confidential and the very fact of it will not be publicized.

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