Yeah, in the sources you linked, there is no indication that Putin paid SpaceX anything. At most, it seems like Russian forces managed to obtain some Starlink terminals by capturing them or purchasing them through intermediate third parties.

He did fuck Ukraine up on the starlink thing

Would you be able to elaborate a bit? What would you have done, had you been in SpaceX's position?

Putting a private U.S. company in a position where they are expected to guess at the ever-changing intricacies of the front lines of an overseas war is just an unfortunate situation all around. This sort of foreign aid should have gone through the U.S. Department of Defense from the start (and it now is), though I can understand why it wasn't.