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Ukraine's defense has been shown, at least in the past, to be crucially dependent on Starlink. So Putin is likely eager to make it as attractive as possible for Musk to turn that off.
Now, we can argue that having a single man-child idiot like Musk able to turn off things like this isn't a good idea - but currently that is the case.
Putin wants his own Starlink. And he doesn't want Musk to turn it off. He wants to be able to turn it off himself whenever he needs to - preferably without having to cause a Kessler syndrome.
He wants Musk to turn it off for Ukraine.