An eye-popping video of the Russian General and Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov started getting viral on X (Twitter yesterday). The footage showed Ramzan Kadyrov driving a Cybertruck in Grozny, Chechnya.
The video’s poster on X Anton Gerashchenko former Advisor to Ukrainian Internal Affairs claimed that this Cybertruck was sent to Kadyrov by Elon Musk. The statement and video went viral and controversial on social media.
The Cybertruck shown by Kadyrov also showed a machine gun mounted on its bed. Kadyrov also posed with this massive PKM machine gun wearing belts of its enormous-sized bullets. Kadyrov is seen talking about his Cybertruck in the Russian language which loosely translates to the praise of the Tesla Cybertruck and an invitation to Elon Musk to visit the Chechen Republic.
According to the translation by the Associated Press, Ramza Kadyrov said “Thank you Elon for such transport”. “Soon, it will go to the frontline of the special military operation,” he said. “Musk, we will be looking forward to your visit,” Kadyrov added.
This implies that Ramzan Kadyrov never said that the Cybertruck was explicitly sent by Elon Musk to him. For a powerful and wealthy head of state like Kadyrov, sourcing a vehicle that has been in production for about a year now is not a herculean task.
In the first 24 hours of the posting of the video, it did not get a response from Elon Musk. However, later on, Musk officially denied sending a Cybertruck to Chechnya, Russia, or Kadyrov for any reason whatsoever.
Musk had to clarify his position as the news wasn’t now confined to social media. Mainstream media (MSM) had by now grabbed the news and started creating stories about Elon Musk and the shipment of the Cybertruck to the Chechen Republic’s Ramzan Kadyrov.
New York Times’s Seth Abramson reposted Kadyrov’s Cybertruck video and accused Elon Musk of providing military vehicles to the enemies of America. This post from Seth came after Musk spoke at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as a convocation speaker. Seth Abramson wrote:
I’m confused. U.S. Military Academy at West Point just had Elon Musk as its convocation speaker, when Musk is providing vehicles ready for military use to sanctioned enemies of America? Why isn’t this the biggest story in America today? Why is West Point coddling a man working openly against the US?
Seth’s X (Twitter) post finally acted as a wake-up call for Elon Musk. “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk replied to Seth’s discussion thread.
“Yet another example of how much the legacy media lies,” Musk wrote further in another X post.
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