Russia's representative in so-called LPR blames Musk for sponsoring "terrorism"

Rodion Miroshnik, a so-called representative of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic in Moscow, has said US businessman Elon Musk held on to his status of a sponsor of terrorism after he announced on October 16 that his SpaceX company would continue to pay for Starlink telecoms services in Ukraine.

"Musk, now officially, has kept his status of a sponsor of a terrorist regime, incurring losses all the while," Miroshnik told TASS.

"The Ukrainian regime is just a lap dog that has a master. The master in the face of the Pentagon and the US government is the biggest customer for Elon Musk’s companies. So, when the moaning started to emanate from the regime of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky [Volodymyr Zelenskyy], the master reacted. They put pressure on Musk and he, out of fear to lose major contracts, is forced to assume the extra commitment to bankroll the satellite constellation that’s used to provide intelligence data to Ukrainian armed gangs," he said.