One other day, one other Elon Musk U-turn: ‘The hell with it, will fund Ukraine' | World News

SpaceX proprietor Elon Musk on Saturday introduced that his firm will proceed to pay for Starlink satellite tv for pc web in Ukraine, a day after suggesting he can not proceed funding the venture indefinitely.

“The hell with it. Regardless that Starlink continues to be dropping cash & different corporations are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll simply hold funding Ukraine govt at no cost (sic)”, the billionaire tweeted.

Earlier Elon Musk had stated that his firm will not be capable of pay for Starlink satellite tv for pc web providers in Ukraine indefinitely confirming studies that claimed that SpaceX had knowledgeable the US navy that it won't be able to fund the web providers which have performed an important position in Ukraine's communications amid Russian invasion.

Moreover, Elon Musk had additionally requested the US navy to foot the invoice.

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"SpaceX is just not asking to recoup previous bills, but in addition can not fund the present system indefinitely *and* ship a number of thousand extra terminals which have knowledge utilization as much as 100X larger than typical households," Elon Musk had then tweeted.

“That is unreasonable,” he had stated.

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Moreover, Elon Musk had additionally claimed that the Starlink providers in Ukraine had already value SpaceX $80 million and is more likely to exceed $100 million this yr.