Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Kadyrov_95 / Telegram
Brutal warlord and Kremlin-appointed Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced on Friday that he had donated two Tesla Cybertrucks to Russian troops on the front lines in Ukraine.
Kadyrov’s post was accompanied by a dramatic video showing two Cybertrucks, each equipped with a mounted machine gun on its roof manned by two soldiers, driving off road, before one of them shoots down a drone. “You won’t find a better ad for a Cybertruck. We definitely know how to use them,” Kadyrov wrote in his post accompanying the video.
On Thursday Kadyrov revealed that a Cybertruck he claimed had been a gift from Tesla CEO Elon Musk in August had been remotely disabled. “Elon Musk has behaved badly. First he gives you expensive gifts from the bottom of his heart, and then he disconnects them remotely,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.
Photo: Kadyrov_95 / Telegram
Revealing that he had been forced to “tow the iron horse”, Kadyrov called Musk’s behaviour “unmanly” before asking, apparently in earnest, ‘How come, Elon? Is that what’s done?"
In August, Kadyrov posted a video of himself driving a Tesla Cybertruck with a machine gun mounted on its roof around his compound in the Chechen capital Grozny, praising the car and thanking Musk for gifting it to him. Kadyrov welcomed Musk to Grozny where he said he’d be welcome “as the dearest of guests”.
Though Musk responded to criticism of his apparent gesture by saying: “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?”, X users subsequently demanded to know why he had not had Kadyrov’s Tesla disabled, to which Kadyrov chimed in by imploring Musk not to pay attention to “unenlightened people and the corrupt media”.
