In March 2025, messages appeared in Runet: the US Secretary of State announced his intention to meet with the head of SpaceX to talk with him on the possible disconnection of the Armed Forces from the satellite Internet system. We checked how reliable this news is.
March 4 Telegram channel "Two major”(272,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) said:“ Today there are a lot of news that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to discuss the shutdown of Starlink’s satellite Internet in Ukraine in the coming days. We will observe, but the very fact of public warning a few days before the planned discussion [ceasefire] indicates, rather, an attempt to blackmail, pressure on the Ukrainian authorities. And do not forget that Starlink for Ukraine pays Poland, which has concluded a contract, and European companies may well partially occupy the resulting niche, providing their satellite communications, albeit not on such a scale. ” Channel "Militaryist Kitten"(90,000 views) specified that the Western media allegedly report the words of Rubio, and added:“ It is too early to make anything about this. News about partial muffling systems have already been. All of them in the end turned out to be stuffing. ”
Other Russian-speaking Telegram channels wrote about the alleged statement of the head of the State Department, including Colonelcassad (263,000 views), "Uncle Glory"(198,000), Voblya (147 000), "Sheikh Tamir"(142 000),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(122 000),"Cat Kostyan"(117 000),"Mishovets Yegor"(81 000),"Military observer"(57 000), Lomovka (52,000) and Mash Room (37,000). On the air "Radio Sputnik»The TV presenter Ruslan Ostishko spoke about the intention of Rubio, and also reported about it"Public news service". There are similar publications on VKontakte (examples here And here).
The authors of some of the posts mentioned above reinforced their words with 18-second videos with the symbols of the American television channel CNN. In the video, Rubio communicates with the leading Caitlan Collins, and their conversation is accompanied by Russian and English subtitles. Between the heroes of the video, such a dialogue took place:
- Why exactly do you want the President of Zelensky to apologize?
- Well, let him apologize for turning all this into Fiasco, which it turned out for him. In the coming days, I will see Ilon Mask and swear that I will persuade him to turn off Starlink for the Ukrainian army. Then Zelensky will understand how much he actually depends on us.
According to the search issuance On the official website CNN, Rubio gave Collins interview February 28, and 10-minute version The TV channel published their conversations on YouTube on March 1. The interview was devoted to negotiations between Donald Trump and flew to Washington Vladimir Zelensky - the presidents of the two countries were supposed to conclude an agreement on US access to Ukrainian natural resources. But already a preliminary meeting with journalists in the oval office, which was also attended by Rubio, It ended with a skirmish, and the signing of the documents was torn. According to stenigram On the website of the State Department of the United States, neither Musk nor Starlink during that interview on CNN were mentioned.
Initially, Collins brought Zelensky's words that he does not consider it necessary apologize to Trump for what happened, and asked About Rubio on this issue. The US Secretary of State said that he did not agree with the President of Ukraine, after which the host asked the interlocutor specify, for which exactly Zelensky should apologize. His answer sounded like this:
“Well, let him apologize for turning all this into Fiasco, which it turned out for him. He did not need to go there and join the confrontation. Listen, everything flew off the coils. You were there. I think everything flew off the coils when he told the vice president: "Let me ask you a question. What diplomacy are you talking about?" Well, this is very serious. In the sense that thousands of people were killed. Thousands! And he talks about all these terrible things that occurred with prisoners of war and children. All this is true, all this is bad. This is what we are dealing with. This must be put an end. We are trying to finish it. To put an end to this, it is necessary to plant Russia at the negotiating table. And he understands this. No attacks on Putin (regardless of how this or that person belongs to his person), nor attempts to put the president [Trump] in a situation where he is forced to attack Putin, calling on in different words, nor maximalistic demands so that Russia pays reparations, nor other sentences for negotiations in aggressive form (and the president can make a negotiating, he concludes his whole life) - all this will not force people to sit down at the table negotiations. And then you begin to understand that, perhaps, Zelensky does not want a peace agreement. He says he wants, but perhaps this is not so. And this active and open undermining of efforts to achieve the world causes deep disappointment among everyone who was involved in communication with him until today. And I think he must apologize for spent our time on a meeting, which was supposed to end wrong. ”
On the same CNN YouTube channel, in the Shorts section, “Checked” discovered almost one and a half minute Excerpt From an interview with Rubio, in which the Secretary of State answered the same question the host. In terms of design, he looks like a viral video.
The first eight seconds of this CNN video are completely coincided with a 18-second record that dispersed along Telegram, but the differences Start From the place where there was a proposal about the mask and Starlink. So, on the version distributed in Runet at that moment, the video row changes to archival shots, and Rubio's speech becomes sunbathing.
“Verified” the audio traffic by a viral video into two parts (the first eight and last ten seconds, respectively), and then analyzed them using the AI-detector from the company HIVE. It turned out that with a probability of almost 100%, the alleged words of the US Secretary of State about the mask and Starlink were generated by neural networks. At the same time, the HIVE analysis testifies, at the beginning of the recording, the speech of a real person sounded with the same probability. French factor from the Les Observateurs project France 24 used the Hiya Audio submit detector and They came To the same conclusions.
The earliest post with a viral video that was able to track “verified” was released in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel “Odessa Za Victory!”(7300 views), where the video was published on March 4 at 12:25 pm Moscow time. This channel is often It appears In our analysis as the primary source of anti -Ukrainian fakes.
In addition, as noted the fact of a factory project StopfakeOn the same day, a screenshot allegedly made on the CNN website appeared in Runet, on which only the headline, photography and the beginning of the news notes are visible. “CNN: Fan shutdown Starlink. Ukrainian military formations record the regular shutdown of Starlink along the entire front line after the visit of Zelensky to the White House, ”translated the English-language text Telegram channel“Cat Kostyan"(84,000 views). However, these messages dispersed in Runet much worse: according to TGSTAT, less than 50 similar posts appeared in Telegram, which had a total of more than 150,000 views. For example, the channels told about the screenshot "Avdeevka.ru"(9300 views),"GAGAUS Republic"(9000) and"Bear"(8800).
In fact, the header "Starlink Rolling Blackouts" is not material On the site American television channel. “Verified” also did not find traces of such a note in CNN social networks and its reproduction or references in other authoritative publications. And the earliest appearance of the screenshot that we managed to track, took place on March 4 at 14:55 in the Prochremlin Telegram channel "Kryminforum 🇿 🇴 🇻"(13,000 views). After almost half an hour, a similar post appeared in the channel mentioned above "Odessa Za Victory!"(5800 views).
Earlier media ReportedThat about 42,000 Starlink terminals are used in Ukraine, of which Poland finances about half. February 22 Reuters agency with reference to its own sources reportedthat the United States can turn off Ukraine from the Starlink system if Kyiv and Washington do not sign an employment agreement. The head of SpaceX, Ilon Musk, in turn accused The agency in a lie and stated that by the level of misinformation it is overtaken by only the Associated Press (in the post, the billionaire gave the distorted name - the Associated Propaganda). In early March, Politico wrote that the European Union considers The ability to replace Starlink alternative satellite systems from European companies.
March 9 in its social network X Mask He called Introduce sanctions against the ten richest Ukrainian oligarchs. In response to subsequent accusations of the pro -Kremlin position, the head of SpaceX wrote: “I literally challenged Putin to a real battle one on one for Ukraine, and my Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. The entire advanced line will collapse if I turn it off. ” The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radoslav Sikorsky, who was reacted to these words. reminded: “Starlink for Ukraine is paid by the Polish Ministry of Digitalization and costs about $ 50 million per year. If SpaceX is an unreliable provider, we will be forced to look for other suppliers. ” In turn, the words of the Polish minister Commented Rubio, thereby once again indirectly refuting the authenticity of the viral video: “[you] just invent. No one threatened to cut off Ukraine from Starlink. And thank you, because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago, and the Russians would now be on the border with Poland. ” Mask He called it Sikorsky “little man” urged him to be silent, adding: “You pay only a small part of the cost. And there is no replacement of Starlink. ” Later a billionaire wrote: “I am extremely clear: no matter how much I do not agree with the policy of Ukraine, Starlink will never turn off its terminals. I just pointed out the fact that without Starlink, Ukrainian communication lines will collapse, since the Russians can drown out all other communications! We will never do this and do not use it as a bargaining coin. ”
Thus, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not promise in the near future to discuss with Ilon Mask the ability to turn off the Armed Forces from the Starlink system. Similar messages are built only on one video that first appeared on the pro -Kremlin resources and was edited using neural networks.
Photo on the cover: Screenshot video @cnn (YouTube)
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