Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied a claim that he spoke directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks about the war in Ukraine and a proposed “peace plan” to end the conflict
. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, American political scientist Ian Bremmer, president of political consulting firm Eurasia Group, claimed Musk told him directly about his conversation with Putin last month. In a tweet Tuesday, however, Musk said he hadn’t spoken with Putin in over a year. “I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago,” Musk tweeted. “The subject matter was space.
” According to one attendee, Musk added that “in my view the nature of that peace would be: recognizing Crimea as Russia, allowing Luhansk and Donetsk to be independent, quasi-independent republics, and don’t block the water to Crimea like they did last time. Russia would accept those terms.” Based on the ideas Musk put forward, according to another source who heard them, it seemed “clear” he had been “in communication with the Kremlin.
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