Chechen warlord crony of Putin claims Elon Musk ‘took out’ his Cybertruck with machine gun: Tesla boss denies sending vehicle as gift to Ramzan Kadyrov
Putin’s Chechen warlord friend claims Elon Musk turned off his Cybertruck after sending it to the front lines in Ukraine with a machine gun mounted on the back.
Ramzan Kadyrov, 47, was filmed driving the car, which he said was a gift from the billionaire entrepreneur, around what appears to be the presidential palace in the Chechen capital, Grozny.
The footage, reportedly taken on August 17, shows him standing behind a machine gun with a cartridge case full of bullets slung over his shoulders.
But two days later, Musk denied giving the Cybertruck to Kadyrov.
Now the warlord is accusing the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of remotely disabling the £145,000 vehicle after sending it to war.
Kadyrov wears bullets around his neck as he poses with the machine gun atop his Tesla on August 17
The 47-year-old warlord took the Tesla Cybertruck for a spin around his ‘palatial’ mansion
Kadyrov said on Russian social media platform Vkontakte: “Elon Musk behaved ugly.
‘He gives expensive gifts from the heart, and then rejects them from a distance.
‘You probably remember his gift: the Cybertruck, which we equipped with a machine gun and sent to the SVO (‘special military operations’ zone, as Russia calls its war in Ukraine).
The machine performed excellently in combat missions.
‘Demonstrable manoeuvrability and good protection for the crew.
‘So Musk recently remotely disabled the Cybertruck.
‘This is not manly. We had to drag the iron horse.
“How is that possible, Elon? Is that how it’s done?”
The photo shows Kadyrov atop his new Cybertruck, which he says he no longer uses
Kadyrov behind the wheel of the futuristic vehicle in Chechnya, Russia in August
The warlord accuses the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of remotely disabling the £145,000 vehicle after sending it to war
Meanwhile, in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Putin launched a guided bomb that hit a residential home, killing a 78-year-old woman.
Shocking footage shows traumatised residents being evacuated from a home in Sumy, Ukraine, after Vladimir Putin’s forces destroyed the building in a brutal attack.
The nursing home was home to 221 people before it was destroyed when a rocket hit the fifth floor of the complex.
“There are wounded people, some of them are in serious condition and have been hospitalized,” Volodymyr Artyukh, head of the Sumy regional administration, said as he announced an evacuation.
Mykola, a patient who lived on the fourth floor of the Sumy Geriatric Boarding House, said: “I was in the room, there was an explosion, the windows were shattered.”
Another resident, Vitali Anokhin, who lived in the house for six years, said: ‘Everything was fine until those damn Russians came.’
Elon Musk arrives at an event in Los Angeles on April 13
Over the past six weeks, Russia has deployed troops to stop the incursion into its territory and has also stepped up its offensive in eastern Ukraine (Photo: Zelensky)
Another victim, Viktor, said: ‘The glass flew out. I was completely covered in glass. The rescuers came and helped me down.’
Photos show residents in wheelchairs being carried out of the damaged building by firefighters and other emergency workers.
The Sumy region, on Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia, has been facing increasing attacks from Russia since Ukraine invaded part of the neighboring Kursk region in early August.
Over the past six weeks, Russia has deployed troops to stop the incursion into its territory and has also stepped up its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Due to the increased threat, Ukrainian authorities announced in August that they planned to evacuate a total of 45,000 residents from the hardest-hit parts of the region.
Ukraine’s air force said last night it had destroyed 61 of 70 Russian attack drones and one of four missiles fired by Russia at its territory, including the capital Kiev.
“The air defense system operated in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,” it said on Telegram.