Walk through the timeline here:
My team and I put 74 major moments in the Elon Musk–Starlink–Ukraine controversy on a timeline using more than 160 sources. Put the statements next to the events, and the story gets complicated.
In this video, I walk through Starlink’s arrival in Ukraine, the controversy over coverage near Crimea, Pentagon contracts, reports of Russian access, and the competing explanations for service restrictions.
We examine what Musk and SpaceX have said, what reporting alleges, and where the record has been corrected. Then we get to the bigger question: When a military depends on a private company’s communications network, who decides how that network can be used—and who is accountable when access changes?
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