Credit : BRICS News's X
KUALA LUMPUR, October 26, 2026 – Billionaire Elon Musk has said that “the bloodthirsty warmongers who push for a war that never ends” should “burn in hell”, BRICS News reported, as the SpaceX chief steps up a public row with Ukraine over the use of his Starlink satellite network in the war with Russia.
BRICS News highlighted the remark in a post on X on October 25, sharing an image of Musk. Musk’s own post, published on his X account minutes earlier, read: “May the bloodthirsty warmongers, who push for a war that never ends, burn in hell!” He did not name any individual or government in that post.
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Musk’s message quoted a post by another X user which said he had “warned about the Ukraine war years ago” and recalled that, in October 2022, he had proposed a peace plan involving UN-supervised votes. Hours earlier, Musk had replied “They are bloodthirsty warmongers” to a user who argued that “Europeans and neo-cons” were pushing for the war to continue. He also reposted a message on Sunday arguing that Ukraine “needs a new leader”.
The comments follow Musk’s claim on Saturday (October 24) that Ukraine’s armed forces had breached Starlink’s terms of service. “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be,” he wrote. “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.”
In the same post, Musk said Starlink remained critical to Ukraine’s defence. “Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact,” he wrote, before adding that he had “nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.”
The AP reported that Musk’s post amounted to an acknowledgement that SpaceX had throttled Starlink’s service in Ukraine, disrupting operations the country relies on to defend itself. The Kyiv Independent reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Starlink and Starshield, the militarised version of the system, were working at full speed again as of the morning of October 24, after being limited to 161 kilometres per hour. Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said Starshield was again operating at speeds above 400 kilometres per hour.
Ukrainian officials disputed Musk’s account. Serhii Beskrestnov, a defence technology adviser to Zelensky, said Starlink terminals in Ukraine had been capped at speeds of 70 to 90 kilometres per hour since early 2026 and did not work on Russian territory. “It’s very strange that Elon Musk doesn’t know about the restrictions on Starlink’s operation in Ukraine,” he wrote, according to the AP. Former Defence Ministry adviser Serhii Sternenko said any terminal operating on the move had to be connected to the military Starshield system.
Musk has argued that Starlink must remain a civilian service. In a separate post on Sunday, he said the network could support military infrastructure but not “unequivocally offensive strikes”, warning that an adversary destroying Starlink satellites “would create a domino effect of destruction” and a debris field that could make space unusable. He has said Starshield is controlled by the US government.
Starlink has been central to Ukraine’s battlefield communications since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Musk’s October 2022 peace proposal, which included UN-supervised votes in Russian-occupied regions, drew sharp criticism from Kyiv at the time, and his latest remarks are likely to deepen an already strained relationship with Ukrainian officials.
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