They needed the wireless satellite internet connections in the region to coordinate the military.

I'm not certain that it was NATO, or if it was Ukraine that made the request.

From Elon on X:

There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.

The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.

If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.

They needed the wireless satellite internet connections in the region to coordinate the military.

I'm not certain that it was NATO, or if it was Ukraine that made the request.