{"id":294537,"date":"2026-08-26T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=294537"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:13:36","slug":"ukraine-awards-musk-top-state-honor-what-is-behind-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/294537\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine awards Musk top state honor: What is behind the move?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has bestowed one of Ukraine’s top state honors on SpaceX owner Elon Musk, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Under a presidential decree published on the presidential website on Wednesday, Musk was awarded ​the Order of Freedom.<\/p>\n

The decree praised Musk “for outstanding ​personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom, ⁠and for developing relations between the peoples of ​Ukraine and the United States of America.”<\/p>\n

Musk switched on the ​Starlink satellite internet service over Ukraine shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. It has become the lifeblood of Ukraine’s battlefield communications ​and a tool for piloting drones.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has now asked to use Starlink over Russian territory as ​it seeks to ​attack targets ⁠including launchers for ballistic missiles that are wreaking destruction on Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has said ​he was told that Musk opposed the ​move ⁠as a “major escalation” of the war, but that Ukraine had “started to receive a different, more encouraging feedback.”<\/p>\n

Using Starlink over ⁠Russian territory ​could reduce capabilities that Russia ​is relying on to drag out the war, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has bestowed one of Ukraine’s top state honors on SpaceX owner Elon Musk, Reuters writes. Under a presidential decree published on the presidential website on Wednesday, Musk was awarded ​the Order of Freedom. The decree praised Musk “for outstanding ​personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom, ⁠and for developing relations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294538,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294537\/revisions\/294538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}