Musk Denies Report He Spoke With Putin Before Peace Tweets
- Eurasia Group’s Bremmer wrote about Musk and Putin in a note
- Musk said a call would be ‘pointless’ given divergent demands
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Both the Kremlin and Elon Musk denied a report that said the billionaire spoke directly with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine.
Ian Bremmer, head of political-risk consultancy Eurasia Group, wrote in a note to clients on Monday that Musk told him about recently speaking with the Russian president. Bremmer said that conversation came before a series of Musk tweets urging Ukraine to seek a negotiated solution to the invasion by Russia and to cede Crimea for good.