UNITED24 did not report such information, and neither did any other credible source.
Ukraine has found an alternative to the American satellite system Starlink, a number of pro-Russian sources report citing UNITED24. France and Poland are allegedly ready to provide it. At the same time while commenting on this decision communications officer Ruslana Danilkina allegedly spoke obscenely about Elon Musk in the context of his recent comments about Ukraine.
However, this news is fake. First of all, UNITED24 did not publish such a video on its Instagram page. Moreover, the news did not appear in any other Ukrainian media, and it was pro-Russian sources who began to spread it on Telegram. Thus there is every reason to believe that the propagandists edited the video themselves from stock footage. They had previously used the UNITED24 brand identity to spread the fake that eight villas of Ukrainian generals burned down in Los Angeles.
And secondly, Ruslana Danilkina, who was called a communications officer in the video, does not actually currently hold combat positions in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. She is a veteran who joined the army at the age of eighteen and lost her leg when she came under fire. Since 2023, Danilkina has been working at the Superhumans center in Lviv, rehabilitating Ukrainians who lost limbs as a result of the war, and also blogs about living with a prosthesis. On her personal page, she also did not publish any offensive comments about Elon Musk, and did not comment on this news invented by propagandists.
For now, Ukraine continues to use the Starlink system, despite the tensions in relations with the United States. Elon Musk last commented on this topic on February 22, when he called a Reuters report that the United States was allegedly considering disabling access to the satellite system for Ukraine a «lie». Electronic warfare equipment manufacturer and former Air Force officer Anatoly Khrapchinsky considers the Starlink shutdown unlikely: «Both Trump and Musk are about money. That’s why they won’t give up multibillion-dollar, multimillion-dollar contracts. In fact, I don’t really believe that Starlink can be disabled». At the same time, he added, the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of Russia do not use Starlink, but the military still has a connection.
Previously we refuted another fake about Elon Musk in the article Fake: Elon Musk Published a Mocking Post with the Last Dollar for Zelensky.
