New book says Musk ordered Starlink satellites turned off during Ukrainian attack

A new biography of billionaire Elon Musk sheds light on how much control the tech mogul had over the war in Ukraine.

The book, written by biographer Walter Isaacson, says Mr. Musk secretly told his engineers last year to deactivate a Starlink network on the Crimean coast before a Ukrainian sneak attack against Russian forces in the area.

The Ukrainian military was using the satellites to communicate with anti-submarine drones. Once the Starlink network was deactivated, the submarines “washed ashore harmlessly,” according to the book.