Vladimir Putin raved about Elon Musk at an event on Tuesday, calling him an "outstanding person." Musk denied a Ukrainian request for Starlink access in Crimea, thwarting a drone attack on Russia. "As far as private business and Elon Musk is concerned, he is undoubtedly an outstanding person," Putin said, per the Reuters translation. "If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation," Musk tweeted on September 7. There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.

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