‘Perhaps he really is our agent’: Russian state TV celebrates Elon Musk as ‘Elon the Muscovite’ after he posted Ukraine War meme mocking Zelensky
Russian state television has praised Elon Musk as a “Muscovite” and suggested he “really is our agent” after the billionaire posted a meme ridiculing Volodymr Zelensky.
The meme, posted on Musk’s social media site
The photoshopped image, which mocks Zelensky’s pleas for wartime aid as the future of U.S. aid to Kiev hangs in the balance, is likely to escalate Musk’s feud with Ukraine.
However, the move received praise from Russia, with state television presenter Olga Skabeyeva describing the technology mogul on Russia-1 on Monday as ‘Elon the Muscovite’.
“Elon Musk is magnificent, he is great and maybe he really is our agent,” she said, discussing “war fatigue” in the US after the US Congress bill was passed to prevent a shutdown that withheld aid to Ukraine .
Elon Musk escalated his feud with Ukraine with a tweet (pictured) mocking the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for his pleas for wartime aid
Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva (photo) describes the technology magnate on Russia-1 on Monday as ‘Elon the Muscovite’
“Not so long ago it was impossible to even imagine something like this,” she said.
“Unless something changes in the next 45 days, the United States will certainly stop helping” Kiev, Skabeeva added, describing Ukraine as “a walking corpse.”
‘Elon Musk is great, he’s great. Maybe Elon Musk really is our agent,” Skabeeva told her audience.
Musk, owner of Space
Ukrainian officials criticized Musk earlier in the war for suggesting they should consider giving up land for peace, a position Kiev has firmly rejected.
On the official page on did not spread any Russian propaganda’.
Mariana Betsa, Ukraine’s ambassador to Estonia, accused Musk of lacking empathy, pointing to the thousands of Ukrainian citizens killed in Russia’s invasion of her homeland.
‘Elon, do you have no empathy? Ukrainians are murdered by Russia every day. We are fighting for our lives, for our families, for our country, for our freedom #StandWithUkraine,” she wrote on X.
Zelensky visited the United States in September and met with top officials in Washington in an effort to secure further aid. Pictured: Zelensky and Biden in the Oval Office, September 21
Musk also owns SpaceX, which provides Starlink satellite communications services critical to Ukraine’s defense efforts
Kiev quickly hit back at the billionaire, posting a mocking response of its own. On the official page on ‘
Roman Sheremeta, a Ukrainian academic, wrote that he admired Tesla’s CEO, “but he became a mouthpiece of Russian propaganda and a simply indecent person.”
The meme wasn’t the only time Musk commented on Ukraine this weekend.
On Friday, Musk, commenting on the US funding situation on
Zelensky visited the United States in September and met with top officials in Washington in an effort to secure further aid as Kiev continues its counter-offensive.
However, this weekend aid to Ukraine was left out of an emergency funding measure passed by the US Congress to prevent a US government shutdown.
The US has been Ukraine’s biggest donor since last year’s Russian invasion, providing tens of billions of dollars in military and financial aid.
But cutting $6 billion in funding from the bill will worry Ukraine and its allies amid fears that rifts are emerging in the West over support for Kiev.
Ukraine is already nervously eyeing the possibility of a return to the White House by Republican former President Donald Trump, who has previously praised Putin.
President Joe Biden has sought to reassure Kiev that it will get the funding it needs.