# Zelenskyy Gives Musk State Honor as Ukraine Lobbies for Starlink

https://mins.news/en/item/33168

- Bloomberg News, 2026-08-26 13:40 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/zelenskyy-gives-musk-state-honor-as-ukraine-lobbies-for-starlink?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a8eecbd0602a6000171ded1

> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Elon Musk with the Order of Freedom, a major state honor reserved for strategic partners. Kyiv is also lobbying the world’s richest man to allow his Starlink mobile internet system to be used for drone strikes in Russia.

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