{"id":182200,"date":"2023-10-03T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=182200"},"modified":"2023-10-03T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:00:53","slug":"russian-state-tv-celebrates-elon-musk-as-elon-the-muscovite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russian-state-tv-celebrates-elon-musk-as-elon-the-muscovite\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian state TV celebrates Elon Musk as &apos;Elon the Muscovite&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;Perhaps he really is our agent&#8217;: Russian state TV celebrates Elon Musk as &#8216;Elon the Muscovite&#8217; after he posted Ukraine War meme mocking Zelensky<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russian State TV has praised &#8216;wonderful&#8217; Elon Musk after the tech billionaire posted an unflattering meme ridiculing Volodymr Zelensky<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The meme mocked the Ukrainian leader&#8217;s efforts to secure foreign aid\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0It comes as\u00a0the future of US aid to Kyiv hangs in the balance following\u00a0the US congressional bill passed to avoid a shutdown that omitted aid to Ukraine<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russian State television has hailed Elon Musk as a &#8216;Muscovite&#8217; and suggested he &#8216;really is our agent&#8217; after the billionaire posted a meme ridiculing Volodymr Zelensky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meme, posted to Musk&#8217;s X social media site, showed a manipulated image of the Ukrainian leader with a strained face and the caption: &#8216;When it&#8217;s been 5 minutes and you haven&#8217;t asked for a billion dollars in aid&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The photoshopped image, mocking Zelensky&#8217;s\u00a0pleas for wartime assistance as the future of US aid to Kyiv hangs in the balance, is likely to escalate Musk&#8217;s feud with Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The action won accolades from Russia however, with state TV presenter\u00a0Olga Skabeyeva describing the tech mogul as &#8216;Elon the Muscovite&#8217; on Russia-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Elon Musk is magnificent, he is wonderful and perhaps he really is our agent,&#8217; she said while discussing war &#8216;fatigue&#8217; in the US following\u00a0the US congressional bill passed to avoid a shutdown that omitted aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/21\/76067807-12589987-Elon_Musk_escalated_his_feud_with_Ukraine_last_night_with_a_twee-a-28_1696364329200.jpg\" height=\"786\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk escalated his feud with Ukraine with a tweet (pictured) mocking the country&#8217;s president Volodymyr Zelensky for his pleas for wartime assistance<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/21\/76131179-12589987-image-a-35_1696365043572.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russia state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva (pictured) describing the tech mogul as &#8216;Elon the Muscovite&#8217; on Russia-1 on Monday<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Only recently, it was impossible to even imagine anything like this,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unless something changes in the next 45 days, the United States will certainly stop helping&#8217; Kyiv, added Skabeyeva, describing Ukraine as &#8216;a walking corpse.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Elon Musk is magnificent he is wonderful. Perhaps Elon Musk really is our agent&#8217; Skabeyeva told her audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who owns Space X which is providing Starlink satellite communication services that are vital for Ukraine&#8217;s defense effort, has increasingly angered Kyiv with seemingly anti-Ukraine actions and rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials criticised Musk earlier in the war for suggesting that they should consider giving up land for peace, a position that Kyiv has staunchly rejected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On its official page on X, Ukraine&#8217;s parliament accused Musk of spreading Russian propaganda, posting its own version of the &#8216;strained face&#8217; meme with a picture of Musk and the caption: &#8216;When it&#8217;s been 5 minutes and you haven&#8217;t spread Russian propaganda&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mariana Betsa, ambassador of Ukraine to Estonia, accused Musk of lacking empathy, pointing to the thousands Ukrainian of civilians killed in Russia&#8217;s invasion of her home country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Elon, don\u2019t you have empathy? Ukrainians are killed daily by Russia. We are fighting for our lives, for our families, for our country, for our freedom #StandWithUkraine,&#8217; she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/21\/76068073-12589987-Zelensky_visited_the_United_States_in_September_and_met_top_offi-a-29_1696364358253.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Zelensky visited the United States in September and met top officials in Washington in a bid to secure further aid. Pictured: Zelensky and Biden in the Oval Office, September 21<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/21\/76068033-12589987-Musk_also_owns_SpaceX_which_provides_Starlink_satellite_communic-a-30_1696364363642.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Musk also owns SpaceX , which provides Starlink satellite communication services that are vital for Ukraine&#8217;s defence effort<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/21\/76067805-12589987-Kyiv_was_quick_to_hit_back_at_the_billionaire_posting_a_derisive-a-31_1696364369302.jpg\" height=\"773\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyiv was quick to hit back at the billionaire, posting a derisive reply of its own. On its official page on X, Ukraine&#8217;s parliament accused Musk of spreading Russian propaganda, posting its own version of the meme with a picture of Musk and the caption: &#8216;When it&#8217;s been 5 minutes and you haven&#8217;t spread Russian propaganda&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Roman Sheremeta, a Ukrainian academic, wrote that he one admired the Tesla CEO, &#8216;but he became a mouthpiece of the Russian propaganda and just indecent human being.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The meme was not the only time Musk commented on Ukraine over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, commenting on the US funding situation, Musk wrote on X: &#8216;Why do so many American politicians from both parties care 100 times more about the Ukraine border than the USA border?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky visited the United States in September and met top officials in Washington in a bid to secure further aid as Kyiv pushes forward with its counteroffensive.<\/p>\n<p>However, over the weekend, aid for Ukraine was omitted from a stopgap funding measure passed by the US Congress to avert a US government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The US has been the largest single donor to Ukraine since Russia&#8217;s full invasion last year, giving tens of billions of dollars in military and financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>But the dropping of the $6billion funding from the bill will be of concern to Ukraine and its allies, amid fears cracks are appearing in the West over its support for Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is already nervously eyeing the possibility of a return to the White House by Republican former president Donald Trump, who has previously praised Putin.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has attempted to reassure Kyiv it will get the funding it needs.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12589987\/Perhaps-really-agent-Russian-state-TV-celebrates-Elon-Musk-Elon-Muscovite-posted-Ukraine-War-meme-mocking-Zelensky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Perhaps he really is our agent&#8217;: Russian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russian state TV celebrates Elon Musk as &amp;apos;Elon the Muscovite&amp;apos; 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