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Musk Under Fire for Stifling Ukrainian Attack on Crimea

Published SEP 8 2023·Updated SEP 10 2023

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Image credit: Ukrainian Defense Ministry [via Wikimedia Commons]

The Spin

Pro-Ukraine narrative

In preventing Ukraine from striking Russia's Black Sea fleet, Musk allowed those ships to launch further missile attacks on Ukraine, thus allowing them to inflict more destruction and death upon Ukrainian civilians.

CNBC

Pro-Russia narrative

Musk was quite right to prevent Ukraine from attacking Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea. Such an attack would've been a major escalation of the war and would've forced Russia to respond accordingly.