US president Donald Trump has previously said publicly he believed neither he nor Elon Musk was behind the Starlink slowdown. (EPA Images pic)MUMBAI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine's access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Elon Musk, not the White House, comments that suggested Musk may have restricted Kyiv's access to the service.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Musk had ordered the slowdown of Starshield, a military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relies on to defend itself against missile attacks from Russia.
The Journal cited one person saying that SpaceX CEO Musk, president Donald Trump and White House officials discussed the matter beforehand, and two people saying that Musk and the president discussed the matter in the days after the slowdown.
