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The US Department of Defense and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have reacted to recent claims, reported by Newsweek among others, that Starlink internet terminals were being shipped to and deployed in Russia via a Middle East intermediary.

Ukrainian soldiers have claimed that Russia’s military has begun using Elon Musk’s satellite communications network in Ukraine, with their accounts being quoted by a journalist in the country.

The claims have sparked outrage among pro-Ukraine figures and on social media, with some also pointing to Musk’s alleged restricting of Kyiv’s use Starlink in the occupied regions, including Crimea.

“They began to deliver Starlink en masse, via Dubai, accounts are activated, they work in the occupied territories,” one of the soldiers with the X handle @Serhij wrote, referring to the four regions of Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia in the fall of 2022—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Musk’s SpaceX first deployed its Starlink satellites to help provide Kyiv with internet service in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

But, in September 2023, Musk admitted that he previously prevented a Ukrainian attack on a Russian Navy base by declining Kyiv’s request to activate internet access in the Black Sea to avoid complicity in a “major act of war.”

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