Ramzan Kadyrov accused Elon Musk of remotely disabling his Tesla Cybertruck

Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Russia's Chechen republic, accused Elon Musk on Thursday of disabling a Tesla Cybertruck he reportedly received from the billionaire last month.

Kadyrov, who has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist for more than 17 years, released a video in August of himself driving an electric vehicle with what looks like a machine gun. of the vehicle Roof.

Kadyrov said he received the vehicle from Musk, which the Tesla owner called a lie on his social media platform X.

“Musk recently deactivated the Cybertruck remotely. That's not nice for Elon Musk to do“He makes expensive gifts from the heart and then reverses them remotely,” Kadyrov said in a post on his Telegram account.

The Cybertruck is an electric pickup truck that was first unveiled by American automaker Tesla in 2019 before entering production last year.

In his social media post, Kadyrov claimed that the vehicle he received was used in combat and sent to Ukraine, where it “proved admirable“.

Kadyrov, the son of a former rebel warlord, is now one of Putin's most vocal supporters and has long described himself as the president's soldier. The 47-year-old Chechen leader says he has sent thousands of troops to support the Kremlin in its offensive against Ukraine, Klix.ba writes.

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