EU countries are discussing financial assistance for Ukraine to retain access to vital Starlink Internet services, currently paid for by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis revealed the plans, which are at an early stage, in an interview with POLITICO.

The proposal follows Musk's warnings that his rocket company SpaceX could not indefinitely continue to pay Ukrainians for access to Starlink Internet services. He later said that he would continue to fund the services.

In the interview with Politico, Landsbergis said Ukraine's access to telecommunication services should not be condemned to the whims of a single “super-powerful” person, who could “wake up one day and say, ‘This is no longer what I feel like doing and this is it.’ And the next day, Ukrainians might find themselves without the internet.”

“I figured that it's probably way better to have this as a contractual agreement between, let's say, a coalition of countries that could purchase a service from Mr. Musk, the Starlink service, and provide it to the Ukrainians and keep on providing it to Ukrainians,” Landsbergis said.

Landsbergis said the topic was discussed at a meeting of 27 EU foreign ministers on Monday. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell raised the topic, and some countries also joined in, the minister said, without specifying which countries.