Elon Musk responded to a request from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, who asked the technology billionaire and SpaceX CEO and founder, Elon Musk, to help the battle-torn nation with communications satellites.
“@Elonmusk as you try to colonize Mars – Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your missiles successfully land from space – Russian missiles attack Ukrainian citizens! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and ask the sane Russians to stay, “Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov tweeted on Saturday.
His request came as part of Ukraine found itself without any internet connection after three days of rocket attacks from Russia.
SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday that Starlink’s satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov tweeted to Musk on Saturday for help
Ukrainian government official asks Musk to provide Starlink stations to affected country
Less than 11 hours later, Musk answered the call and revealed that there were more terminals
On Saturday afternoon, Musk answered the call and said he would send Starlink receivers to the country.
“The Starlink service is already active in Ukraine. More terminals along the route, “Musk tweeted hours after the emergency request.
Starlink is a space system that SpaceX has been building for years to provide Internet access in underserved areas of the world.
Also Saturday, Fedorov called on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Netflix and Google to block Russian-related accounts.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov tweeted on Saturday: “Starlink terminals are coming to Ukraine! Thank you @elonmusk, thank you to everyone who supported Ukraine! ‘
Mikhail Fedorov thanked the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova, pictured on Saturday
Twitter user Lawof72 tweeted February 26, 2022: Thank you @elonmusk and @SpaceX for activating Starlink and sending Starlink receivers to Ukraine
Even the country’s Twitter account tweets its gratitude to Elon Musk and his quick actions
“We also asked @Netflix for support. We called on them to block the Russian Federation’s access to Netflix and to exclude Russian content. We believe you care. Let’s stop this shameful bloody war! he tweeted.
While Ukraine continues to provide air strikes and ground attacks by Russian coercive forces, the district is also under cyber attack.
The website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Parliament appeared offline for several hours on Wednesday after the cyber attack, which affected some of the banks in the country.
A large oil depot caught fire near the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Saturday night
The next day, Russia’s attack on its western neighbor began on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war and declared a “special military operation” to demilitarize and “denationalize” Ukraine on the pretext that Russia was defending itself.
On Sunday morning, two Ukrainian cities were rocked by Russian bombings in the early hours when Vladimir Putin stepped up his invasion after he was said to be outraged by his army’s lack of progress.
Local newspaper The Kyiv Independent writes that an oil depot was blown up in Vasilkov, a city about 40 kilometers southwest of Kiev, near a key airport. A gas pipeline was also blown up in Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.
Videos show a cloud of mushrooms filling the city’s sky as the fuel pipe is destroyed, with a group of people filming the video hearing exclamations of shock as the fireball erupts in the sky.
Ukrainian television Nexta shared footage of flames and black clouds rising in the sky at the site of Vasilkov’s attack while the fuel burned.
Artistic image of a Starlink satellite above the Earth. Starlink is a constellation of satellites that aims to provide Internet access to most of the Earth, especially underserved rural areas.
60 Starlink satellites put together before deployment in May 2019
Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has nearly 2,000 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 340 miles.
Last week, Elon Musk’s satellite company launched a free high-speed Internet service to connect remote villages in Tonga that were cut off after a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami in January, so it’s not entirely out of the question. created quickly for the Ukrainian people.
Satellites allow the rapid transmission of large amounts of information to anywhere on Earth without the need for optical cables.
“In 2022, modern technology is one of the best answers to tanks, missiles and missiles. I appealed to the biggest technology giants to support sanctions against the Russian Federation. We asked them to help us stop this outrageous aggression against our people! ‘ Fedorov wrote in another Twitter post on Saturday.
As of February 26, a total of 2,142 Starlink satellites were launched by the first pair in February 2018, although many of them failed or were decommissioned in space.
SpaceX has even bigger plans for its Starlink project and has already requested permission for a second-generation mega-constellation of 30,000 satellites.