Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski asked Elon Musk if he was “playing politics” with Starlink in Ukraine on Wednesday, after Kyiv said ‌SpaceX had introduced a limit on some services, disrupting combat drone missions, Reuters reported.

Poland has said that it pays for Kyiv’s Starlink subscription, which is vital for guiding longer-range drone strikes against Russia, according to Reuters. 

“Hey, Elon Musk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?” Sikorski wrote in a post on X. “As your European customers, we are watching you.”

There was no immediate response to the post from Musk.

The “big man” jibe referred back to ‌an ⁠extraordinarily public dispute on social media between Sikorski, Musk and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2025, when the Tesla and SpaceX boss told Sikorski to “Be ⁠quiet, small man.”

That clash broke out when Musk said that Ukraine’s “entire front line would collapse if I turned it (Starlink) off”.

He later ⁠said that “no matter how much I disagree with the Ukraine policy, Starlink will never turn ⁠off its terminals … We would never do such a thing or use it as a bargaining chip.”