Billionaire Elon Musk and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky have indulged in a squabble on Twitter after Musk requested Twitter customers to weigh in on a plan to stop Russia’s battle in Ukraine. In a Twitter poll, Musk proposed UN-supervised elections in 4 occupied areas that Moscow remaining week moved to annex after what it called “referendums”.
“Ukraine-Russia Peace: Redo elections of annexed areas beneathneath UN supervision. Russia leaves if this is the need of the people, Crimea officially a part of Russia, because it has been in view that 1783 (till Khrushchev’s mistake), Water deliver to Crimea assured, Ukraine stays neutral,” Musk wrote on Twitter with a “sure or no” poll.
“This is incredibly probable to be the final results withinside the stop – only a query of what number of die earlier than then,” he in addition added. The Tesla Inc leader accompanied up with every other poll – “Let’s do that then: the need of the folks that stay withinside the Donbas and Crimea need to determine whether or not they may be a part of Russia or Ukraine.”
To this, Zelensky replied together along with his personal poll. “Which @elonmusk do you want more? – person who helps Ukraine, person who helps Russia,” he tweeted. Musk in addition responded to Zelensky: “I nonetheless very tons aid Ukraine, however am satisfied that large escalation of the battle will motive exquisite damage to Ukraine and probably the world.”
In view of this social media battle, Musk obtained a large backlash. Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda said, “Dear @elonmusk, while a person attempts to thieve the wheels of your Tesla, it does not cause them to the felony proprietor of the auto or of the wheels. Even aleven though they declare each voted in choose of it. Just saying.” Ukraine’s outspoken outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk gave a harsh response to Musk’s “peace plan” poll, declaring that “no Ukrainian will ever purchase Tesla”.