The Kremlin ignored Elon Musk difficult President Vladimir Putin to a battle over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however a number of Russian officers stepped in to defend their chief by mocking the Tesla CEO on-line.
Musk final week tweeted: “I hereby problem Vladimir Putin to single fight,” with Ukraine because the stakes.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s area company who prior to now disparaged Musk as a rival area rocket maker, replied the identical day by citing a poem referring to a “younger little satan, too weak to compete with me.”
Ramzan Kadyrov, chief of the Russian area of Chechnya and a Putin ally, addressed Musk, 50, by the female Russian first identify Ilona, which sounds much like Elon, telling him he lacked bodily energy to battle Putin, 69, a judo aficionado and “the phobia of the West.”
“Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) would look unsportsmanlike when he beats a weaker opponent like your self,” Kadyrov wrote, suggesting that Musk ought to pump up some muscle mass first.
Musk hit again the subsequent day, telling Kadyrov in a tweet signed “Elona” that he would have “an excessive amount of of a bonus” after coaching. “If he’s afraid to battle, I’ll agree to make use of solely my left hand and I’m not even left-handed,” he wrote.
In a later put up, Kadyrov mentioned he revered Musk for his character and powerful will.
Requested concerning the on-line squabbles, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, responded: “We do not comply with it. We’ve not been studying Twitter for a very long time.”