Tesla Cybertruck may enter the conflict in Russia and Ukraine on the Russian aspect, because the chief of the Chechen area bought one and put a machine gun on it.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the chief of Russia’s Chechen area, has one of many worst trendy human data because the defacto dictator of Chechnya for the previous twenty years. He has been straight implicated in numerous torture and murders.
However he loves Elon Musk and the Tesla Cybertruck.
In messages on Telegram, Kadyrov shared pictures of himself driving a Cybertruck on which he had a machine gun put in:
As you’ll be able to see above, the Chechen chief thanked Elon Musk for the Cybertruck, which some are taking as him saying that Musk gave him the truck, however that’s unlikely as it will circumvent sanctions towards Russia and Kadyrov.
It’s extra doubtless that he’s thanking Musk for “creating” the Cybertruck.
Nonetheless, in response to his messages on Telegram, what is obvious is that Kadyrov believes Musk is the “strongest genius of contemporary instances,” and he claims that the Cybertruck shall be utilized in a “particular army operation,” which is what Russia is looking its invasion of Ukraine.
The Chechen chief additionally invited Musk to come back to Chechnya.
Earlier this yr, we reported on two Cybertrucks that have been stopped at Lithuanian customs as a consequence of suspicions that they have been going to Russia.
We later heard from a supply that the Cybertrucks ended up making it previous the Lithuanian customs and made it to Russia, however we couldn’t verify it. It’s unclear if Kadyrov bought one in every of them or if these are totally different Cybertrucks.