Sen. Warren Calls for Probes Over Claim Elon Musk Prevented Ukrainian Attack on Russian Fleet

Democrat senator’s comments follow biographer’s claims that the tech billionaire blocked Starlink services around Crimea.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks with reporters on her way to a closed-door lunch meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 22, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling for the Department of Defense and Congress to investigate allegations billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk thwarted Ukrainian military efforts by preventing them from using his Starlink satellite internet service to carry out an attack on the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula in September of 2022.

“No one is supposed to make foreign policy for the United States other than the United States government,” Ms. Warren said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday night. “It is not up to one billionaire to go off in secret and change our foreign policy.”