Zelenskyy tells Elon Musk to ‘come to Ukraine’ after peace deal furore

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once more criticised Twitter CEO Elon Musk for proposing a peace take care of Russia.

Musk generated controversy in October after he shared strategies for Ukraine struggle negotiations in a Twitter ballot.

The US billionaire had proposed that Crimea ought to stay a part of Russia and that UN-supervised referendums must be held in 4 areas of southern Ukraine.

Musk additionally stated that Ukraine should “remain neutral,” and in later tweets stated, “victory for Ukraine is unlikely”.

Kyiv and its western allies have slammed the “illegal” annexation referendums held by Russia in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia. The Crimean peninsula was annexed in 2014.

Speaking by way of video convention on the New York Times DealBook, Zelenskyy repeated his criticism of Musk and inspired the Tesla and SpaceX founder to go to his war-torn nation.

“I think either someone has influence over him or he’s drawing conclusions on his own,” Zelenskyy stated.

“If you want to understand what Russia has done here, come to Ukraine and you will see everything for yourself. And then you will tell me how to end this war, who started it and when it can be ended.”

The Ukrainian president had initially responded to Musk in October together with his personal Twitter ballot, asking if individuals most popular the Elon Musk who “supports Ukraine” or the one who “supports Russia”.

Zelenskyy stated he would by no means negotiate with Russia whereas Putin was in energy.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Thursday that Moscow was able to hear if anybody needed to carry talks on Ukraine.

Lavrov additionally dismissed claims that Russia desires to carry peace talks to permit it to rebuild its armed forces.

Russia has denied concentrating on Ukrainian civilians in its newest missile strikes on Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure, which have left thousands and thousands within the nation with out energy forward of the winter.

Moscow has as an alternative blamed Ukraine’s authorities, saying the assaults are all the way down to Kyiv’s refusal to barter.