After calling on the Russian president to fight “man to man”, the response came to Elon Musk Not from Vladimir Putin, but from his Chechen ally.
The Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has responded to the offer of the CEO of Tesla to confront the Russian president, in a single battle that will determine the fate of Ukraine, saying that Musk will face a quick defeat, according to a report by the “Business Insider” website.
Kadyrov, a Putin ally who rules Russia’s semi-autonomous region of Chechnya, stressed that Putin would oust Musk, saying: “I don’t advise you to compete with Putin.”
And on Monday, Musk, the American billionaire who is considered the richest man in the world, challenged the Russian president to a “man-to-man” fight, according to what he said through his Twitter account, to signify his solidarity with Ukraine.
“I’m here to challenge Vladimir Putin to a man-to-man fight,” Musk said in his tweet, writing the Russian president’s name in Russian while the rest of the tweet was in English.
Kadyrov expanded on his response, through his account in “Telegram”, referring to Putin’s qualifications in judo, but said that this was not the main reason for Musk’s loss, explaining that the American billionaire was just a “businessman and blogger on Twitter” compared to Putin, a “global politician and strategist.”
Instead, Kadyrov considered that Musk should enroll in training at one of Kadyrov’s special forces academies or at the Ahmat Combat Club, a chain of Chechen boxing clubs he founded and named after his father, the former Chechen ruler, Akhmad Kadyrov.
The billionaire used to stir controversy on Twitter, where his account has more than 77 million followers.
In February, Musk accused the stock exchange supervisory authority, which has imposed sanctions on him in previous years, of seeking to silence his freedom of expression.