Elon Musk, chief government officer of SpaceX and Tesla, and proprietor of X. previously generally known as Twitter.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon Musk, calling the Tesla and SpaceX founder a “gifted businessman.”
Putin made the feedback on the Japanese Financial Discussion board in Vladivostok, Russia, as he spoke about Russia’s area program.
“Elon Musk … is undoubtedly an excellent individual. It have to be admitted. I feel the entire world admits it. He’s an lively, gifted businessman,” Putin mentioned, in response to a Reuters translation.
Putin mentioned Musk does enterprise with the assist of the U.S. state.
The Russian president added that Moscow is “keen to develop” assist for personal companies within the nation.
Putin mentioned Russia has already achieved this for for its area packages underneath the company Roscosmos.
The feedback come after Russia’s first area launch to the moon in almost 50 years, failed final month after the Luna-25 lander crashed onto the lunar floor.
The flop was seen as a serious setback for Russia’s area program simply days earlier than India efficiently landed its first spacecraft on the moon.
Musk mentioned final week that he refused an emergency request by the Ukrainian authorities to increase protection of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to Sevastopol in Crimea, a area Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
In a submit on X, previously generally known as Twitter, Musk mentioned that if he agreed to the emergency request “then SpaceX can be explicitly complicit in a serious act of warfare and battle escalation.”
Musk’s Starlink terminals arrived within the early days of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as Western governments labored to produce Kyiv with artillery and air protection methods.
— CNBC’s Ashley Capoot contributed to this report.
