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Elon Musk, tech billionaire and laminitis of aerospace shaper SpaceX, has agreed to rescue Ukraine's net aft the country's vice premier minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, reached retired to him via Twitter.
On Friday, Fedorov asked Musk crook his attraction distant from abstraction exploration for a spot to assistance his state enactment connected to the net arsenic the ongoing Russian attacks endanger the nation's net connectivity.
Russia launched a full-scale penetration connected Ukraine connected Wednesday. Since then, Western countries person travel unneurotic to enforce strict sanctions connected Russia. After a determination to block Russia from planetary banking strategy SWIFT connected Saturday, President Vladimir Putin put the country's atomic unit connected precocious alert.
"We inquire you to supply Ukraine with Starlink stations," said Federov referring to SpaceX's outer net service.
A fewer hours aft Federov's tweet, Musk replied saying Starlink is present progressive successful Ukraine, and that helium was sending much terminals needed to usage the service.
However, Musk did not specify however SpaceX was readying to get further terminals to Ukraine. Locals volition not beryllium capable to entree the Starlink web without these terminals.
UPDATE (Feb. 27, 2022, 18:01 UTC): Adds further context.
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