{"id":75846,"date":"2024-08-17T15:13:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75846"},"modified":"2024-08-17T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:13:24","slug":"tesla-cybertruck-might-enter-russia-ukraine-war-after-chechen-leader-puts-machine-gun-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75846","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Cybertruck might enter Russia-Ukraine war after Chechen leader puts machine gun on one"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1600\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Tesla-Cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tesla Cybertruck machine gun\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Tesla-Cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Tesla-Cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Tesla-Cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Tesla-Cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Tesla Cybertruck might enter the war in Russia and Ukraine on the Russian side, as the leader of the Chechen region got one and put a machine gun on it.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-376284\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia\u2019s Chechen region, has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramzan_Kadyrov\">one of the worst modern human records<\/a> as the defacto dictator of Chechnya for the past two decades. He has been directly implicated in countless torture and murders.<\/p>\n<p>But he loves Elon Musk and the Tesla Cybertruck.<\/p>\n<p>In messages on Telegram, Kadyrov shared images of himself driving a Cybertruck on which he had a machine gun installed:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\" readability=\"7.9862637362637\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.760989010989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kadyrov said he received a Tesla Cybertrack from Elon Musk. He promised to send it to the &#8220;special military operation&#8221; zone and attached a machine gun to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elon, thank you! Come to Grozny, I will receive you as the most dear guest! I do not think that our Russian MFA will be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m72fg2G2PU\">pic.twitter.com\/m72fg2G2PU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gerashchenko_en\/status\/1824818908500816224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As you can see above, the Chechen leader thanked Elon Musk for the Cybertruck, which some are taking as him saying that Musk gave him the truck, but that\u2019s unlikely as it would circumvent sanctions against Russia and Kadyrov.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more likely that he is thanking Musk for \u201ccreating\u201d the Cybertruck.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to his messages on Telegram, what is clear is that Kadyrov believes Musk is the \u201cstrongest genius of modern times,\u201d and he claims that the Cybertruck will be used in a \u201cspecial military operation,\u201d which is what Russia is calling its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Chechen leader also invited Musk to come to Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we reported on<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/05\/08\/someone-smuggle-two-tesla-cybertrucks-into-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> two Cybertrucks that were stopped at Lithuanian customs<\/a> due to suspicions that they were going to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>We later heard from a source that the Cybertrucks ended up making it past the Lithuanian customs and made it to Russia, but we couldn\u2019t confirm it. It\u2019s unclear if Kadyrov got one of them or if these are different Cybertrucks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ddm\/clk\/589873348;397915507;k\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375175\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/Volvo_Electric_Electrek_NativeBanner_750x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Cybertruck might enter the war in Russia and Ukraine on the Russian side, as the leader of the Chechen region got one and put a machine gun on it. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia\u2019s Chechen region, has one of the worst modern human records as the defacto dictator of Chechnya for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}