Tesla boss denies
Report: Musk spoke to Putin ahead of Ukraine peace plan
10/11/2022, 9:31 p.m
On October 3, Elon Musk releases a controversial peace plan for Ukraine. The much-criticized proposal is reminiscent of statements made by the Kremlin. No coincidence, as one report suggests: the Tesla boss is said to have previously spoken personally to Russian President Putin about Ukraine.
Tesla boss Elon Musk is said to have personally coordinated his controversial peace plan for Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is reported by the US online magazine Vice citing the American political scientist Ian Bremmer. Bremmer wrote in a newsletter that Musk told him that Putin was “ready for negotiations”, but only if Crimea remained Russian, Ukraine permanently accepted neutral status and the Russian annexation of the Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions the Eurasia Group.
Bremmer is the founder and president of the American consulting firm based in New York, which deals with security policy issues and risk assessment issues, among other things. Musk explained to him that Putin had said Russia would achieve these goals “one way or another” – including a nuclear strike if the Ukrainian army invaded Crimea, according to the political scientist’s newsletter. “This must be prevented under all circumstances,” the Tesla boss is said to have said to Bremmer.
Musk published his peace plan on October 3, which largely coincides with statements made by the Russian leadership. However, the Tesla boss denies the representation of Vice and Bremmer. on Request from a Twitter userwhether the article is true, the billionaire replies: “No, it’s not. I only spoke to Putin once and that was about 18 months ago. The topic was space.”
However, the Tesla boss is not only incriminated in the newsletter by US political scientist Bremmer, but also in an article in the British “Economist”. There had foreign correspondent Oliver Carroll already announced on October 6 that Musk was in personal contact with the Russian President. As a source, the journalist gave Ukrainian government circles on. Among other things, there are fears that Putin could urge the Tesla boss to withdraw Ukraine’s access to the satellite Internet Starlink, which is operated by Musk’s space company SpaceX. Accordingly, Musk is said to have already turned down a Ukrainian request to be able to use Starlink over Crimea.
This account fits an article published by the Financial Times the day after the Economist reported. Accordingly, Starlink failures have recently increased in Ukraine, as the British newspaper wrote on October 7, citing Ukrainian troops. Many of the problems were reported from the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions as front lines crossed into Russian-controlled areas, the newspaper wrote. The front line in the east of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk is also affected.
Ukraine had made great progress in the regions mentioned in the past week. Some of the outages led to a “catastrophic loss of communication,” the Financial Times quoted a Ukrainian government official as saying. Soldiers should have switched to emergency numbers. Western military officials also confirmed failures, but did not want to explain their statements to the newspaper.