If Elon Musk grants Ukrainian acting President Zelensky’s latest request to use the Starlink satellite communication system over Russia, for precision targeting of their long-range strikes into Russia, will Moscow retaliate by destroying the entire Starlink satellite fleet with orbiting shrapnel? That is a question raised in a lengthy July AP wire, which reports that Musk currently allows Starlink’s use over Ukraine, and Russian-occupied territories formerly part of Ukraine, but not over Russia proper. Musk has yet to respond publicly to Zelensky’s latest requests, which came in the course of his meeting last week with President Donald Trump.
AP added that their agency had “reported in December that two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel,” further disclosing that “the intelligence findings were shown to the AP on condition that the services involved were not identified, and the news organization was not able to independently verify the findings’ conclusions.”
