Tragic loss of life for Ukraine to attack a larger army that had defense in depth, minefields and more powerful artillery when Ukraine had no air superiority! Any fool could have predicted that.
This is what American billionaire Elon Musk wrote in X about the war in Ukraine.
My recommendation a year ago was for Ukraine to strengthen itself and apply all resources to defense. Even then, it is difficult to hold a territory that does not have strong natural barriers. There is no chance of Russia taking all of Ukraine, as local resistance will be overwhelming in the west. But Russia will certainly gain more land than it has today, he believes.
The longer the war goes on, the more territory Russia will gain until it hits the Dnieper, which is difficult to cross. But if the war goes on long enough, Odessa will also fall.
Whether or not Ukraine will lose all access to the Black Sea remains, in my opinion, the real question. I recommend a negotiated settlement before that happens, he added.
The Ukrainian agency UNIAN commented on Musk's proposals and assumptions as "scandalous".
We remind you that in November Musk called for negotiations with Putin and sympathized with the Russian soldiers. According to the billionaire, Ukraine's attempts to regain the territories seized by the Russians are unnecessary.
According to Musk, Zelensky should personally meet with Putin, instead of "sending the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in the trenches". At the same time, he thinks that the Russian soldiers "can sympathize" just like the Ukrainian defenders.
Earlier, Musk mocked President Volodymyr Zelensky and aid to Ukraine. On his X account, Musk shared an old meme of Zelensky, but added a caption to it: "When five minutes have passed and you haven't asked for a billion dollars in help,'' Musk wrote.
The Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, then attacked Musk's mockery with his own comment on "X".
"When (Elon Musk) tried to conquer space but something went wrong and after 5 minutes he was up to his neck in shit," he wrote in an apparent reference to the failed SpaceX rocket launch. in April.
On its official page in the social network, the parliament of Ukraine accused Musk of spreading Russian propaganda and published its own version of the meme with a picture of Musk and the caption: "When 5 minutes pass and you haven't spread Russian propaganda.
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An adviser to the Ukrainian president Mykhailo Podolyak, who has previously criticized some of Musk's statements, warned that silence or irony regarding Ukraine plays into Russian propaganda.
"Unfortunately, not always and not everyone - even important media figures - being thousands of kilometers from the epicenter of the war fails to realize what the daily bombings and the cries of children who lose their parents are like,' he wrote in the social network.