© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks on a display screen in the course of the Cell World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
(Reuters) – Elon Musk stated on Saturday his rocket firm SpaceX would proceed to fund its Starlink web service in Ukraine, citing the necessity for “good deeds,” a day after he stated it might now not afford to take action.
Musk tweeted: “the hell with it … regardless that starlink remains to be dropping cash & different firms are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll simply hold funding ukraine govt without cost”.
Musk stated on Friday that SpaceX couldn’t indefinitely fund Starlink in Ukraine. The service has helped civilians and navy keep on-line in the course of the warfare with Russia.
Though it was not instantly clear whether or not Musk’s change of thoughts was real, he later appeared to point it was. When a Twitter consumer advised Musk “No good deed goes unpunished”, he replied “Even so, we should always nonetheless do good deeds”.
The billionaire has been in on-line fights with Ukrainian officers over a peace plan he put ahead which Ukraine says is just too beneficiant to Russia.
He had made his Friday remarks about funding after a media report that SpaceX had requested the Pentagon to pay for the donations of Starlink.
SpaceX didn’t reply to a request for remark. The Pentagon declined to remark.
