Musk activated Starlink over Ukraine shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
Stubb said another possibility would be to freeze the fighting along the current line of contact and establish 30-km buffer zones on both sides. Because that would save lives,” Stubb said, i plead that Elon Musk would give the Ukrainians the possibility to use Starlink in areas where there are ballistic missile launchers, either in the occupied territory of Ukraine or in Russia for strategic purposes.
Stubb said he had appealed directly to Musk to allow Starlink to work in areas where Russian missile launchers are based, including occupied Ukrainian territory and parts of Russia. Stubb said Ukraine needed three things ahead of winter, air defences, energy infrastructure and financial support. He said the simplest way forward would be an unconditional ceasefire, followed by negotiations on security guarantees, territory, reconstruction and compensation. “I still think that the easiest solution would be to call an unconditional ceasefire, basically stop the killing, as President Trump reiterated in his speech in the UN General Assembly,” he said. If that proves impossible, he said a more limited ceasefire covering energy and grain-related targets could be considered.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb has urged SpaceX owner Elon Musk to expand Starlink coverage into parts of Russia, saying it could help Ukraine locate and strike Russian ballistic missile launchers. He argued that such access could help Ukraine hit the launchers before they fire missiles at Ukrainian targets. “That’s why … Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been using the UN gathering in New York to push for ceasefires covering attacks on energy infrastructure and vessels in the Black Sea. Russia has given no public indication that it is ready to accept such arrangements.