P. S.

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

The war in Ukraine cannot truly end until Russia pays reparations and Russian war criminals are held accountable.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russia sees a core goal in its war in Ukraine as population reduction and demographic collapse in Ukraine-Economist

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, and anyone else who played a role in cutting off Ukraine's ability to defend itself must answer for it. Congress must get to the bottom of this.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Meanwhile Russia just murdered 53 people in a deliberate missile strike on a school.

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

Elon Musk has Ukrainian blood on his hands. He needs to come in and explain what the hell happened when he altered a global conflict with the flick of a switch.

See you in January, @elonmusk.

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Canada has just 7 days left to prevent Ovechkin—a supporter of murderers, terrorists, and criminals—from appearing publicly on its soil (on @NHL ice) and promoting Russia’s imperialist war. Are 🇨🇦 lawmakers indifferent to the fact that this promotion will cost many human lives?

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians have released drone footage of them dropping a multi-ton guided bomb on a school in Zaporizhzhia, setting it to pop music.

This strike killed over 30 people.

This is Russian culture.

[Olik Korsun @OlikKorsun]

@jurgen_nauditt Komyshuvakha. Footage from police body cameras. Together with local residents, they went into a basement to take shelter from KABs (guided aerial bombs). Everyone was killed.
The camera captured the final moments of their lives.
Russians wrote all of people was operator of drone

[Paweł Buczkowski @buczkowskipawel]

Słoneczny, sobotni poranek we Lwowie. Syn odwiedza tatę.

Ot, cały humanitaryzm Putina.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Ukrainians keep showing enormous courage in defending their country against Putin’s immoral and indeed evil efforts to conquer a neighbor. They have resisted now for four years and eight months and we should do all we can to help them.

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Elon Musk's statement about needing to have pity for Russian conscripts is the ultimate act of cynicism and hypocrisy.
If Elon wants the war to stop and Russian conscripts not to die, the thing to do is help Ukraine win as quickly as possible, rather than forcing Ukraine to sacrifice itself.
A Ukrainian victory is the only way to save the lives of the Russians Musk sympathizes with so deeply.

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

The American cutting of Starlink in partnership with Russia is directly responsible for the deaths of women and children in Kharkiv yesterday.

On October 19, a Russian jet drone attacked civilians in a park in the Kharkiv region: children and adults who were walking in the park were killed.

▶️ With a strike from a "Geran" / Shahed-type jet drone, Russians killed two children: girls aged 1 and 11, and four adults in Nova Vodolaza, Kharkiv region. At least seven children and eight adults were injured.

▶️ The Russian drone deliberately targeted mothers with children who were walking in the park. Among the victims were one-year-old Angelina Maryukhna and her mother, Inna, a primary school teacher.

▶️ The killing of civilians in Nova Vodolaza is part of Russia's daily aerial terror. Russian drone operators are hunting for civilians in frontline communities.

▶️ Uninterrupted operation of Starlink/Starshield without artificial speed restrictions is crucial for protection against jet drones – it was this type of drone that was used to attack people in Nova Vodolaza.

▶️ The killing of children and adults in Nova Vodolaza is a war crime with no statute of limitations. Ukraine is identifying the perpetrators and will do everything to ensure they are brought to justice.

▶️ Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russians have killed at least 764 children in Ukraine and injured over 2,970 minors. The actual number of children – victims of the war – is higher.

▶️ The deliberate attack on mothers with children is a sign of the moral degradation of the Russian army and confirmation of the genocidal nature of the war waged by the Kremlin.

▶️ An effective response to Russian terror should be increased international pressure on the Russian Federation and strict adherence to export controls. The use of Western components for the production of Russian drones and missiles must become impossible.

▶️ Participants in the aggression against Ukraine, Russian military personnel, and representatives of all Russian security structures should be denied entry to the EU.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

“Russia invaded Ukraine, committed atrocities in the territories it occupied, and when it failed to force the government to fall or achieve its aims on the battlefield, began targeting civilians, seeking to terrorize the population into accepting Russian domination. The first Trump Administration shook off the Obama Administration’s reticence to assist and admirably sent both weapons and military trainers to help Ukraine.  After the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Biden Administration orchestrated a herculean international effort to assist Ukraine, which the Trump Administration has abandoned.”-@KoriSchake @AEI https://t.co/gIODrZWi99

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

If Musk crippled Starlink/Starshield leading to dead Ukrainians, then that is justification for a federal takeover. No matter his fabulous wealth, Musk cannot have veto power over life or death.

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

According to The Economist:

"It appears to have come from a small circle around the president, Mr Musk and Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to Russia. Reports suggest Mr Musk wanted to punish Ukraine for striking Russian refineries. One official says he contacted the White House only after imposing the restrictions."

If true, this suggests Elon Musk imposed the terminal-speed restrictions unilaterally, before notifying the White House.

Congress must urgently investigate whether Musk acted without government authorization. It is unacceptable for a private citizen to exercise unilateral control over a vital military capability. Starshield is a defense system, and decisions to restrict its operational capabilities should rest with the appropriate government authorities, not the CEO of a private contractor.

This should alarm everyone.

The America-Ukraine link grows even spottier https://t.co/0TpDX6NAfn

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

If I went to Russia, I would be jailed and held hostage as a POW for criticizing Russia.

I went to Ukraine as a critic and the President of Ukriane invited me to his palace and allowed me to interview him.

After I interviewed @ZelenskyyUa, Russian state media, which is controlled by Putin and the Kremlin, was calling for me to be assassinated and then they were retweeting IRGC propaganda videos that called for Islamic terrorists to shoot me in the head.

Ukraine and Russia aren’t the same.

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.

As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.

In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.

In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.

We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

This is a confession to treason.

Elon Musk, a private individual and not an elected official, hijacked U.S. national defence policy to harm partner Ukraine and help enemy Russia.

https://t.co/uH6HFFSt75