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Reuters
2 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Russia responds to Trump-Musk feud with jokes, jibes and job offers
June 6 (Reuters) - The feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk provoked chatter, mockery and amusement among the ruling class in Moscow, where one senior official joked about hosting peace talks and another said Musk should bring his businesses to Russia. "Elon, don't be upset!" nationalist senator Dmitry Rogozin, who once ran Russia's space programme, wrote on Musk's X social media site. "If you encounter insurmountable problems in the U.S., come to us. Here you will find reliable comrades and complete freedom of technical creativity." Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official and former president, posted: "We are ready to facilitate the conclusion of a peace deal between D and E for a reasonable fee and to accept Starlink shares as payment. Don't fight, guys!" The public feud between the U.S. president and the world's richest man was an easy target for Russian politicians who have a history of gloating over perceived turmoil in Washington. Margarita Simonyan, one of Russia's most powerful state media executives, mocked it as an example of "modern U.S. political culture" -- "Sort of like the English Industrial Revolution. Only in reverse." Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, who has in the past tried to interest Musk in cooperating with Russia on flights to Mars, asked on X: "Why can't we all just get along?" He then asked Grok, X's AI chatbot, how Musk and Trump could reconcile. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked about the clash, said it was an internal matter for the U.S., though he was confident that Trump would handle it. "Presidents handle a huge number of different things at the same time, some more and some less important," Peskov said. Others saw clear benefit for Russia from the feud distracting Washington. "We can just be glad that they won't have time for us," said Konstantin Malofeyev, a hardline nationalist tycoon, who said it was now "the best time to strike back" against Ukraine.
Newsweek
2 days ago
- Business
- Newsweek
Russia's Medvedev Mocks Fight Between Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev poked fun at the explosive war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, offering to mediate peace between the two political allies. Trump is attempting to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to end Moscow's ongoing invasion. "We are ready to facilitate the conclusion of a peace deal between D and E for a reasonable fee and to accept Starlink shares as payment," Medvedev, a former president and prime minister of Russia, posted to X. "Don't fight, guys!" Medvedev added, including an emoji of a screaming face. Starlink is the Musk-owned satellite internet company, which Ukraine has used for battlefield communications and targeting. Medvedev is known for his sarcastic and at times biting humor on social media, often with dark undertones. He is currently the deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. This is a developing article. Updates to follow.
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First Post
4 days ago
- General
- First Post
Russia vows to 'blow up everything that needs to be blown up' in Ukraine after 'delusional talks' fail
In a statement on Telegram, the former president said that the purpose of the negotiation talks in Turkey was not to strike a peace deal on 'delusional terms' but to secure 'swift victory' and ensure the 'complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime' in Kyiv read more Plumes of smoke are seen rising over the Belaya air base in the Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Irkutsk region, more than 4,000 kilometres from Ukraine. AP Russian key security official Dmitry Medvedev has said that Moscow will 'blow up everything that needs to be blown up' after Ukraine intensified its strikes deep in the country. He also suggested that Russia is no longer interested in making compromises to reach a deal with Kyiv. In a statement on Telegram, the former president said that the purpose of the negotiation talks in Turkey was not to strike a peace deal on 'delusional terms' but to secure 'swift victory' and ensure the 'complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime' in Kyiv. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Medvedev referred to a set of Russian demands presented to Ukraine at talks in Istanbul on Monday. They included handing over more territory, becoming a neutral country, accepting limits on the size of the Ukrainian army and holding new parliamentary and presidential elections. 'Retribution is inevitable' The top official threatened that Russia would respond to Ukraine's drone attack, saying, 'retribution is inevitable'. 'Our Army is pushing forward and will continue to advance. Everything that needs to be blown up will be blown up, and those who must be eliminated will be,' he said. Kyiv used inexpensive drones at the weekend to destroy Russian nuclear-capable bombers worth billions of dollars in an operation carried out after months of planning. 'Spider's Web' dealt a blow to Russia more than three years after its invasion of Ukraine, and the operation will now be studied closely by militaries around the world as a new strategy in asymmetric warfare.
India Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Satellite images show scale of damage from Ukraine's attack on Russian airbases
New satellite images have shown that a drone attack carried out by Ukraine destroyed and badly damaged Russia's strategic bombers. The attack, carried out over the weekend, targeted air bases deep inside Russian to Reuters, Ukraine launched around 117 drones from close-range containers, targeting at least four different Russian air bases. Drone footage confirmed by Reuters shows several planes being struck at two of these of the key locations was Belaya air base in Irkutsk, Siberia. It faced extensive damage at this base, according to satellite imagery that Capella Space shared with Reuters. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, which are able to identify ground features even through clouds, provided these images. Experts were able to identify destroyed aircraft even though the images were grainy and in black and white. John Ford, a research associate at the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, stated, "Based on the debris visible, comparison to recent satellite images and released drone footage from Telegram posted to Twitter, I can see the destruction of several aircraft." Satellite image of the Belaya airfield, after a Ukrainian drone attack targeting Russian military airfields. (Photo: Reuters) advertisementFord confirmed that the SAR images showed what looked like the wreckage of two Tu-22 Backfire bombers, long-range jets used by Russia in attacks on Ukraine. He also said that four Tu-95 heavy bombers were either destroyed or heavily CLAIMS OPERATION DAMAGED 41 PLANESFootage from another airfield, Olenya base in Murmansk, showed two bombers burning and a third being hit by a huge explosion. Reuters verified that the bombers appeared to be Russian Defence Ministry said Ukraine had targeted airfields in Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions. It claimed that air defences were able to halt the attacks in some regions, but not in Murmansk and Irkutsk, where several planes caught officials have launched an investigation into the attacks. Dmitry Medvedev, a top Russian security leader, warned, "Retribution is inevitable," indicating that Russia will respond harshly. Ukraine's Security Service chief, Vasyl Maliuk, is seen examining an airfield map at an undisclosed location. (Photo: Reuters) Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency, the SBU, took responsibility for the operation, calling it "Spider's Web." They claimed that 41 Russian aircraft were hit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the operation, calling it "absolutely brilliant."advertisementOn Tuesday, Ukraine's military updated its report on Russian losses. Initially, they reported 12 aircraft destroyed, but later the number increased to 41. "After processing additional information from various sources and verifying it ... we report that the total (Russian) losses amounted to 41 military aircraft, including strategic bombers and other types of combat aircraft," said the Ukrainian to the SBU, the damage from the operation is estimated at $7 billion. They said that 34% of Russia's cruise missile-carrying bombers at its main airfields were to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this attack could compel Russia to change its airspace defenses. "The operation will force Russian officials to consider redistributing Russia's air defence systems to cover a much wider range of territory and possibly deploying mobile air defence groups that can more quickly react to possible similar Ukrainian drone strikes in the future," ISW drone attack was one of Ukraine's most effective and extensive operations, since inputs from ReutersMust Watch
The Age
5 days ago
- General
- The Age
Ukraine says it struck key Crimean bridge with underwater blast
Reuters was able to confirm the location from the structure and bearing elements of the bridge that matched satellite and file imagery of the area, but was unable to independently verify when the video was filmed. Loading Russian military bloggers said the attack had been unsuccessful and speculated that it had been carried out by a Ukrainian sea drone. It comes after a Ukrainian drone attack over the weekend damaged or destroyed more than 40 warplanes at airbases deep inside Russia, which Ukrainian officials said was a serious blow to the Kremlin's strategic arsenal and military prestige. The Russian Defence Ministry acknowledged that Ukrainian attack set several planes ablaze at two airbases but said the military repelled attempted attacks on three other air bases. Meanwhile, a Russian rocket attack targeted the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding 25, officials said. Local authorities said the barrage of rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in the centre of the city. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the assault, saying it underscored that Moscow has no intentions of halting the three-year-old war. Russia's state Investigative Committee also accused Ukraine of carrying out 'acts of terrorism' by blowing up two railway bridges in Russia over the weekend. Seven people were killed and 113 injured, including children, when two trains crashed in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk regions as a result of the attacks, the committee said on Telegram. The attacks come a day after direct peace talks in Istanbul made no progress on ending the fighting. Delegations from the warring sides have agreed to swap dead and wounded troops, but their conditions for ending the war remained far apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of the country's Security Council chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicated there would be no let-up in Russia's invasion. Loading 'The Istanbul talks are not for striking a compromise peace on someone else's delusional terms but for ensuring our swift victory and the complete destruction' of Ukraine's government, he said. In an apparent comment on the latest Ukrainian strikes, he declared that 'retribution is inevitable'. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, responding to suggestions that a face-to-face meeting between Putin, Trump and Zelensky could break the deadlock, says the possibility is 'unlikely in the near future'. The war has killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations, as well as tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides along the roughly 1000-kilometre front line where the fighting grinds on despite US-led efforts to broker a peace deal.
