{"id":1670475,"date":"2022-10-03T16:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670475"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:50:27","slug":"musk-and-zelenskiy-in-twitter-showdown-over-billionaires-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-and-zelenskiy-in-twitter-showdown-over-billionaires-peace-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk and Zelenskiy in Twitter showdown over billionaire\u2019s peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-and-zelenskiy-in-twitter-showdown-over-billionaires-peace-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) \u2013     Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked Twitter users to weigh in on a plan to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine that drew immediate condemnation from Ukrainians, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who responded with his own poll. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhich @elonmusk do you like more?,\u201d Zelenskiy tweeted, offering two responses: one who supports Ukraine, one who supports Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, proposed U.N.-supervised elections in four occupied regions that Moscow last week moved to annex after what it called referendums. The votes were denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia leaves if that is will of the people,\u201d Musk wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Inc chief executive suggested that Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014, be formally recognized as Russia, that water supply to Crimea be assured and that Ukraine remain neutral. He asked Twitter users to vote \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 on the plan.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear @elonmusk, when someone tries to steal the wheels of your Tesla, it doesn\u2019t make them legal owner of the car or of the wheels. Even though they claim both voted in favor of it. Just saying,\u201d Lithuania\u2019s President Gitanas Naus\u0117da tweeted in response. <\/p>\n<p>Musk, who is also chief executive of SpaceX, followed up his first tweet with another poll: \u201cLet\u2019s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas &#038; Crimea should decide whether they\u2019re part of Russia or Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he didn\u2019t care if his proposal was unpopular, arguing that he did care \u201cthat millions of people may die needlessly for an essentially identical outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has >3 times population of Ukraine, so victory for Ukraine is unlikely in total war. If you care about the people of Ukraine, seek peace,\u201d he posted on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>In February, when Ukraine\u2019s internet was disrupted following Russia\u2019s invasion, Musk responded to a tweet by a Ukrainian government official seeking help. Musk said SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite broadband service was available in Ukraine and that SpaceX was sending more terminals to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s outspoken outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, had a blunt reaction to Musk\u2019s peace plan. Melnyk himself faced criticism in July for defending World War Two Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk,\u201d tweeted Melnyk.     <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols, additional reporting by Ron Popeski, Editing by Rosalba O\u2019Brien)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/musk-and-zelenskiy-in\/attachment\/file-photo-illustration-shows-elon-musks-twitter-profile-on-smartphone-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920Y2-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920Y2-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) \u2013 Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked Twitter users to weigh in on a plan to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine that drew immediate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}