Twitter’s anti-woke new owner has warned that he could “die under mysterious circumstances” after revealing he’s been threatened by Russia.
“If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” Musk said in a cryptic tweet on Sunday night.
If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
The warning from Musk came shortly after the Tesla CEO revealed that he has been threatened by the head of Russia’s space agency over his attempts to provide Ukraine with internet service.
Musk, 50, has been using his company Space X’s Starlink network – a constellation of more than 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit – to beam internet connections to dishes around the world.
The service has a large presence in Ukraine, introduced with the explicit intention of keeping the country online amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
The billionaire said they had “resisted hacking and jamming attempts” from the Russians back in April and were focusing SpaceX efforts on countermeasures – at the expense of other projects.
Musk tweeted out the information provided by Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to the Russian media on Sunday night.
Rogozin posted the statement himself on Telegram.
Rogozin – who just yesterday boasted that Russia could destroy all NATO countries “in half an hour” – accuses Musk of giving Starlink equipment to what they refer to as the “Nazi Azov Battalion” as well as branches of the Ukrainian military.
“From the testimony of the captured chief of staff of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov, it follows that the ground-based subscriber equipment of the Starlink satellite company Elon Musk was delivered to the militants of the Nazi Azov Battalion and the Marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Mariupol by military helicopters,” Rogozin wrote.
“Elon Musk is thus involved with supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communications,” Rogozin adds.
“And for this you will have to answer in an adult way, Elon, no matter how much you’ll play the fool.”
The word “Nazi” doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does pic.twitter.com/pk9SQhBOsG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
The billionaire responded, as he often does, with his tongue-in-cheek reply.
“The word ‘Nazi’ doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does,” Musk tweeted.
He then added: “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin’ ya.”
Many of Musk’s fans responded to the missive, including his own mother, Maye Musk.
“That’s not funny,” Musk’s mother wrote with a few angry-faced emojis to go along with it.
That’s not funny😠😠 https://t.co/KgLAzY3F8s
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) May 9, 2022
“Sorry! I will do my best to stay alive,” Musk replied.
