“Speculation about the closing of Starlinks over the territory of Ukraine gained momentum at the weekend,” writes the daily “Welt”. And he adds that “the situation escalated”, and “Musk and the Secretary of State Rubio criticized the Polish government.” Other German media also note that there has been a “sharp exchange of sentences with the Polish Foreign Minister”. Everything around the situation in Ukraine, access to Starlinks and Poland's position.
The sharp exchange of sentences began with Elon Musk's Sunday post, who wrote on Platform X: “My Starlink system is the spine of the Ukrainian army. The whole line of their front would collapse if I turned it off.” He also added, among others, that “he is fed up with years of slaughter in the face of the ongoing deadlock in Ukraine, which will inevitably lose.”
The head of Polish diplomacy responded to the entry Radosław Sikorskiwriting about “threatening the victim of aggression” and emphasizing that “Starlinki for Ukraine is paid by the Polish Ministry of Digitization.”
The Secretary of State responded to this entry USA Marco Rubio. “Just making up. Nobody threatened to cut Ukraine from Starlinks. And say 'thank you', because without Starlinks Ukraine would have lost this war a long time ago, and the Russians would now be on the border with Poland,” he wrote. “Be quiet, little man. You pay a small part of the costs. And there is no replacement for Starlinks,” Musk later returned to Sikorski. More entries also appeared in the discussion.
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“A dispute broke out between the USA and Poland”
The exchange of sentences between them was recorded by German media.
The ZDF station portal writes that “a dispute between the USA and Poland broke out about the Starlink satellite service for Ukraine.” He explains that on platform X on Sunday there was a sharp exchange of sentences between Musk, which the corporate empire belongs to Starlink and Sikorski. “The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also intervened,” writes the portal.
On the portal of the weekly “Spiegel” we read: “It would be a disaster for Ukrainian troops: technological billionaire Elon Musk has recently gone the impression that he can withdraw his Starlink network from the country. Now he denies this – in combination with a naughty attack.”
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“Musk attacks the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs” – the title of the article in the daily “Welt” sounds. “Speculation about the closing of Starlinks over the territory of Ukraine gained momentum at the weekend. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland said, and the situation escalated. Trump's adviser and the Secretary of State Rubio criticized the Polish government” – wrote in the text.
The Tagesschau portal, belonging to the Ard station, noted that “Musk promised Ukraine, that it would not limit access to its satellite network – shortly after a sharp exchange of sentences with the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding responsibility for satellites.”
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung portal noted that opposition politicians noted PiS party They reacted to the exchange of blows in the case of Starlink, “with a verbal falling on their knees in front of Rubio and Musk and sharp criticism of Sikorski.”
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