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title: "Elon Musk &  Starlink: Crimea is Russia NOT Ukraine"
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**This one’s been cycling through the news as of late. Don’t mistake me for someone who is an Elon Musk fan. Not the case at all. I’m just not a fan of spin, misrepresentation and bullshit. *Elon withheld satellite service to Ukraine*. All of this is tied to a book that has recently been published. `The service was never cut off. Because it was never connected.` `This non existent service is alleged to have covered Crimea, which is Russian territory. `**

###### **Crimean citizens voted to join Russia. In a referendum. Remember**?

[**As reported, everywhere, in 2014**](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097)

> **`Some 95.5% of voters in Crimea have supported joining Russia, `officials say, after half the votes have been counted in a disputed referendum.**
> 
> **`Crimea's leader says he will apply to join Russia on Monday`. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has said he will respect the Crimean people’s wishes.**

**The people in Crimea, saw for themselves, what the Ukrainians had done in the East- Donetsk (DPR) They saw the atrocities committed by the Ukrnazis in Odessa and they threw their support to Russia. The vast majority of them being ethnic Russians!**

**Read below**

[**Ukrainian Defence Intelligence believes that information about Musk and Starlink’s work on Crimea should be verified**](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/8/7419061/)

> Ukrainian Defence Intelligence representative believes that the **information about billionaire Elon Musk ordering the disconnection of Starlink over Crimea to disrupt an attack on the Russian fleet should be carefully checked.**

**Elon Musk acknowledged that` there was no connectivity.` `Therefore there was nothing to disconnect`. And Musk must surely understand that Crimea is Russian territory and has been for nearly a decade.**

Can’t disconnect what is not connected
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> The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything.
> 
> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [September 7, 2023](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1699913329261813809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)





**Making this whole story an exercise in bullshit and distraction. But why? Because` the Ukrainian counter offensive is going nowhere.` `And a distraction from this reality is needed and desired.So, it's created.`**

[](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/musk-acknowledges-withholding-satellite-service-to-thwart-ukrainian-attack/)