Global leaders around the world have condemned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over his decision to invade Ukraine, but Elon Musk is taking it one step further in challenging the Russian leader to a one-on-one fistfight.
“I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat,” and the “stakes are Ukraine,” Elon Musk said in a Twitter post-Monday morning, using the Russian alphabet to write Putin’s name while writing Ukraine in the country’s language.
In a follow-up message in Russian, Musk tagged the Kremlin’s official Twitter account and asked, “Do you agree to this fight?” Not everyone was on board with Musk’s comments.
Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, responded by calling Musk a “weakling” and “little devil.”
“You, little devil, are still young, Compete with me weakling; It would only be a waste of time. Overtake my brother first,” Rogozin wrote. He also included the name of the 1800s Russian poem “The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda,” which is about a lazy priest who hires a cheap worker before the worker drives him insane.
Report By Jeffrey Addy