Last month, we reported on Kadyrov, who has been ruling over the Chechen Republic for more than a decade, taking delivery of a Cybertruck and outfitting it with a machine gun. The report was controversial for a few reasons. First off, it’s unclear how Kadyrov got a Cybertruck as sanctions against Russia and him specifically should have prevented it. Also, the Chechen leader claimed that he was sending the Tesla Cybertruck to Ukraine to join the Russian war effort. Finally, Kadyrov insinuated that the Cybertruck was gifted to him by Elon Musk – something the Tesla CEO quickly denied. A few weeks later, Kadyrov claimed that the Cybertruck joined the war effort in Ukraine, but he posted on Telegram today that it was “remotely disabled by Elon Musk”. This time, he also more clearly claimed that Musk gifted him the Cybertruck: “Now, recently, Musk remotely disabled the Cybertruck. That’s not a nice thing for Elon Musk to do. He gives expensive gifts from the bottom of his heart and then remotely switches them off. That’s not manly. We had to tow the iron horse. How could you do that, Elon?” RT, which acts as a propaganda arm for Russia, reported that the “remote deactivation has been defeated” and that the Chechen leader is sending two more Cybertrucks to Ukraine. They had footage of two Cybertrucks driving around with machine guns: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov loves his Cybertruck technical so much that he’s sent two more to the front lines. But you know who isn’t so pleased? Elon Musk. Kadyrov revealed via his Telegram channel that his viral first Cybertechnical – the Cybertruck he had custom fitted with… pic.twitter.com/kyzFN1OIhL