Hours after being blasted for parroting Putin's propaganda, Elon Musk says he is 'obviously' pro-Ukraine and says SpaceX has spent $80 million on Starlink in the country

Musk is involved in a new spat with the Ukrainian government.

Musk posted a poll on Monday about a peace plan for the war inUkraine. Ukrainian diplomats lambasted Musk over the poll which seemed to parrot the Kremlin's talking points.

Musk said on Monday night that he is pro-Ukraine and that his company has spent $80 million on Starlink in the country.

The cost to enable and support Starlink in Ukranian is more than 80 million dollars. $0 is the amount of support we give to Russia. He wrote, "Obviously, we are proUkraine."

The Ukrainian soldiers are using Starlink to communicate on the battlefield. The internet and voice services have been rendered useless by a number of factors.

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022

Musk had called for a vote on a list of conditions that he said could lead to peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy andUkraine's ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, responded quickly to the poll. Zelenskyy asked his followers which Musk they liked better, the one who supports Russia or the one who supports the Ukranian government.

—Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 3, 2022

Musk's Starlink has been assisting Ukrainian war efforts on the ground.

In June, Oleksiy, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, thanked Musk for his Starlink service.

Since the beginning of the war, Musk has sent thousands of Starlink satellite kits. He is using the opportunity to test these satellite services, which he is also trying to sell to other countries, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The platoon commander on the Izyum front told the Journal that Starlink saved the war.