Elon Musk denies report he spoke with Vladimir Putin before tweeting about ‘Peace’ between Russia and Ukraine

Ian Bremmer, head of political-danger consultancy Eurasia Team, wrote in a be aware to purchasers on Monday that Musk instructed him about recently speaking with the Russian president. Bremmer reported that discussion came in advance of a series of Musk tweets urging Ukraine to seek out a negotiated remedy to the invasion by Russia and to cede Crimea for great.

Musk claimed in a tweet on Tuesday that he did not talk with Putin about the war, adding that this kind of a simply call would be would be “pointless, as there is presently no overlap involving Russian and Ukrainian demands – it is not even near.”

Bremmer responded on Twitter a several hours later on that Musk explained to him he spoke with Putin.

“I create actually devoid of fear or favor and this week’s update was no different,” Bremmer said. “I’ve long admired Musk as a unique and entire world-altering entrepreneur, which I’ve mentioned publicly. He’s not a geopolitics expert.”

Minutes later on, Musk responded: “Nobody need to have confidence in Bremmer.”

Eurasia Group’s weekly take note authored by Bremmer is distributed to thousands of personal and company shoppers, including macro hedge cash, family places of work and worldwide firms. The organization dispenses political-chance evaluation gathered by a international community of consultants.

In his most the latest observe, Bremmer mentioned Musk had informed him about two weeks before that he’d reviewed with Putin the president’s minimal needs for ending the war. Those people conditions, which mirrored the proposals Musk put forward in his tweets on Oct. 3, bundled Ukraine ceding Crimea, accepting a formal condition of neutrality and recognizing Russia’s annexation of Luhansk and Donetsk. 

The parameters are in line with what Russia has repeatedly said are some of its calls for for ending the invasion, which began in February.

Musk’s Ukraine tweets are what prompted Bremmer to come ahead, he said in his be aware.

“I was not planning on producing about this,” he wrote. But “it feels important to create about what is going on.”

Bremmer didn’t answer to a ask for for comment. A Eurasia Group spokesman declined to elaborate beyond the observe.