Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic, accused Elon Musk on Thursday of disabling a Tesla Cybertruck he claimed he received from the billionaire last month.
Kadyrov, who has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist for more than 17 years, shared a video in August of himself riding in an electric vehicle with what appeared to be a machine gun on the vehicle’s vehicle’s roof.
Kadyrov said he received the vehicle from Musk, which the Tesla owner called lies on his social media platform X.
“Now, recently, Musk remotely disabled the Cybertruck. It’s not nice for Elon Musk to do. He gives expensive gifts from the heart and then remotely shuts them down,” Kadyrov said in a post on his Telegram account.
The Cybertruck is an electric pickup truck that was first introduced by American automaker Tesla in 2019, before going into production last year.
In his post on social media, Kadyrov claimed that the vehicle he received was used in combat and sent to Ukraine, where it “proved admirably“.
The son of a former rebel warlord, Kadyrov is now one of Putin’s most vocal supporters and has long called himself the president’s soldier. The 47-year-old Chechen leader says he has deployed thousands of troops to help the Kremlin in its offensive against Ukraine, Klix.ba writes.
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