Putin‘s Chechen warlord crony has claimed Elon Musk switched off his Cybertruck after he reportedly sent it to the frontlines in Ukraine with a machine gun strapped to the back of it.
Ramzan Kadyrov, 47, was filmed driving the vehicle, which he says was gifted to him by the billionaire entrepreneur, around what appears to be the presidential palace in the Chechen capital Grozny.
The footage, reportedly filmed on August 17, shows him standing behind a machine gun with a bandolier of bullets around his shoulders.
But two days later, Musk denied having gifted the Cybertruck to Kadyrov.
Now, the warlord has accused the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of remotely turning off the £145,000 vehicle after he sent it to war.
Kadyrov wears bullets around his neck as he poses with the machine gun on top of his Tesla on August 17
The 47-year-old warlord took the Tesla Cybertruck for a spin around his ‘palace-style’ mansion
Kadyrov said on Russian social media platform Vkontakte: ‘Elon Musk acted ugly.
‘He gives expensive gifts from the heart, and then remotely turns them off.
‘You probably remember his gift – the Cybertruck, which we equipped with a machine gun and sent to the SVO [ ‘special military operation’ zone, which is what Russia calls its war in Ukraine].
‘The machine coped with combat missions perfectly.
‘Demonstrated manoeuvrability and good protection for the crew.
‘So, recently Musk remotely turned off the Cybertruck.
‘This is not manly. We had to tow the iron horse.
‘How is that possible, Elon? Is that how it is done?’
Picture shows Kadyrov on top of his new Cybertruck which he says stopped working
Kadyrov behind the wheel of the futuristic vehicle in Chechnya, Russia in August
The warlord has accused the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of remotely turning off the £145,000 vehicle after he sent it to war
Meanwhile in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Putin launched a guided bomb that struck a residential home, killing a 78-year-old woman.
Harrowing footage shows traumatised residents being evacuated from the home in Sumy, Ukraine after Vladimir Putin’s forces wrecked the building in the callous strike.
Some 221 people lived in the retirement centre before it was smashed apart when the missile hit the fifth floor of the complex.
‘There are wounded, some of them are in serious condition and they have been hospitalised,’ said Volodymyr Artyukh, head of the Sumy regional administration, as he announced an evacuation.
Mykola, a patient who lived on the fourth floor of the Sumy Geriatric Boarding House, said: ‘I was in the room, there was an explosion, the windows shattered.’
Another resident Vitaly Anokhin, who lived in the home for six years, said: ‘Everything was fine until the ****ing Russians came.’
Elon Musk arrives at an event in Los Angeles on April 13
Over the past six weeks, Russia has scrambled troops to halt the incursion into its territory, and also ramped up its offensive in eastern Ukraine (pictured: Zelensky)
Another victim Viktor said: ‘The glass flew out. I was all covered in glass. The rescuers came and helped me to get down.’
Pictures show residents in wheelchairs being carried out of the damaged building by firefighters and other emergency workers.
Sumy Oblast, which is on Ukraine’s northeast border with Russia, has faced increased attacks from Russia since Ukraine invaded part of neighbouring Kursk region in early August.
Over the past six weeks, Russia has scrambled troops to halt the incursion into its territory, and also ramped up its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Amid the heightened threat, Ukrainian authorities announced in August that they planned to evacuate a total of 45,000 residents from parts of the most impaced parts of the region.
Overnight, Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed 61 out of 70 Russian attack drones and one out of four missiles launched by Russia into its territory, including at the capital Kyiv.
‘The air defence system operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,’ it said on Telegram.
