Elon Musk is bickering with a European astronaut on the social media platform he owns, exchanging tense posts with offensive language. He’s claiming two NASA astronauts were left on the International Space Station for “political reasons.

Elon Musk, the SpaceX billionaire now with close ties to US president Donald Trump as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), has shut down a report from Reuters that American negotiators could cut Ukraine’s access to his Starlink satellite internet if the country doesn’t reach a deal on critical minerals.

Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, the company that manufactures Starlink terminals, has denied a Reuters report that US negotiators threatened to cut off Ukraine's Starlink satellite internet service if it refused to sign a subsoil deal.