- Elon Musk expressed his disappointment in Ukraine’s summer season counteroffensive in an X post on Sunday.
- “A lot dying for thus little,” Musk wrote in his submit.
- The billionaire has been beforehand accused of pushing pro-Russian sentiments.
Elon Musk — who Ukrainian officers not too long ago blasted for blocking an assault on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet — derided the success of Ukraine’s summer season counteroffensive on Sunday.
“A lot dying for thus little,” Musk wrote in a post on X, previously Twitter, on Sunday.
Musk was responding to enterprise capitalist David Sacks’ thread on the subject.
Sacks first began the thread on June 19, arguing that the counteroffensive “is failing to realize any of its initially acknowledged targets” of rolling again Russia’s territorial features and kickstarting peace negotiations. Sacks has been updating his thread regularly with articles on the topic.
Musk, for his half, has weighed in lots of instances on the warfare in Ukraine.
In October 2022, Musk posted a peace plan proposal on X. This plan concerned Ukraine recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea and “remaining impartial” by not becoming a member of NATO.
Musk’s concept drew widespread condemnation from Ukrainian officers on the time, with Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Melnyk telling the billionaire to “fuck off.” Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the minister of inside affairs in Ukraine, said Musk’s pro-Russia stance made it seem to be the Russians had hacked his social media account.
Musk additionally successfully sabotaged a Ukrainian assault on Russia’s navy vessels final 12 months when he refused to activate entry to the SpaceX-run Starlink satellites, per an excerpt from the Walter Isaacson-penned biography about Musk.
Ukraine launched its counteroffensive on Russia in June, per the Council on International Relations. Battle analyst Jan Kallberg on the Middle for European Coverage Evaluation mentioned final month that the counteroffensive was making incremental however “substantial progress.”
Representatives for Musk didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider despatched exterior common enterprise hours.
