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Musk challenges Putin to 'single combat' with Ukraine as the stakes
I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat
What he said or did
Musk tweeted: I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat,
naming Ukraine as the stakes.
Background
The post came in the third week of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, shortly after SpaceX began supplying Starlink to Ukraine.
Official response
Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin replied by citing a poem about a young little devil
; Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov mocked Musk and invited him to train in Chechnya; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: We don't follow it.
Sources
- Cyprus Mail16 Mar 2022
- Fortune15 Mar 2022
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