Poland is ready to look for starlink alternatives for Ukraine if Musk proves “unreliable” – politico

In response to Musk’s position, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stressed that the Polish ministry of digitization is one of the largest suppliers of Starlink in Ukraine, with Warsaw which finances half of the 42,000 Starlink terminals operating in the country at a cost of around 50 million dollars per year.

“If SpaceX turns out to be an unreliable supplier, we will be forced to seek other suppliers,” wrote Sikorski in his article on X, calling “ethics” on the side of Musk “to threaten the victim of the attack.”

As Politico reported a week ago, the European Commission already examines how it can help Ukraine guarantee an alternative satellite communication capacity following Musk threats.

Musk supervised his Sunday article as a message to put an end to the war in Ukraine, but according to press reports, Starlink threats could be part of Washington’s strategy to put kyiv in an agreement on critical minerals in Ukraine.

A possible mineral agreement between Ukraine and the United States could be on the table in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, when the delegations of the two countries will meet for the first time since the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy clashed with American president Donald Trump in the White House at the end of February.