Vladimir Putin has not had any contact with Elon Musk since their only conversation, which took place until 2022. This was stated by the presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, in a briefing, TASS reports.
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“All this is false, it is absolutely false information published in the newspaper,” said Peskov, commenting in The Wall Street Journal publication that since the end of 2022, the director of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, has maintained regular contacts with Russia . President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin spokesperson clarified that the Russian president had a telephone conversation with Musk before 2022, “more of an informative nature,” during which they discussed technological solutions for the future. Putin spoke about progress in Russia and an American businessman shared his views on promising areas.
“The directions of technological development that Musk considers promising were compared, Putin talked about how things are going in our [прогресс]”Peskov clarified. “It was a telephone conversation of medium length.”
According to the press secretary, reports about Putin’s contacts with Musk or Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are “fillers” related to the electoral fight.
On October 25, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing current and former US, EU and Russian officials, that since late 2022, Elon Musk has maintained regular contacts with Vladimir Putin. According to the newspaper, they discuss personal, business and geopolitical issues.
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