According to the publication, thousands of soldiers are being sent home in the Belgorod and Rostov districts because they do not match military standards. On Thursday, Putin apologized for the myriad complications that have plagued the mobilization process since he announced it the week before, promising that individuals with deferrals and exemptions would be sent home.
Russian officials were contacted for reaction by Newsweek. It also sought professional advice from the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
"This is quite likely," Musk said.
Melnyk responded by tweeting, "Fuck off is my very civilized response to you." Melnyk was one of several Ukrainian politicians who criticize Musk's proposal.
"Has @elonmusk's account been hacked by Russians?" Or has Elon Musk himself been compromised?" According to Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine's interior minister. On Twitter, he queried, "Should Putin consider Elon Musk's prospective Mars colony historically Russian and annex it?"
"Musk did a lot towards [Ukraine's] win, but has abruptly gone insane," Dmytro Gurin, a Ukrainian parliament member, wrote.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief counselor, Mykhailo Podolyak, reacted to Musk's concept with a "better peace plan."
ely to be the eventual result - it's simply a matter of how many people die before then."
"1. [Ukraine] liberates its lands. This includes the annexed Crimea. 2. Demilitarization and forced disarmament of Russia so that it no longer poses a threat to others. 3. International tribunals are used to try war crimes. "Shall we vote?" He scribbled something.
Musk's attempt to fix a real-world catastrophe with a Twitter vote was supposedly mocked by Zelenskky.
Musk's plea to redo polls in Ukraine's recently acquired regions comes just days after pro-Russia proxies staged separate referendums on joining Russia in four occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine, moves that Ukraine and the West largely condemned as unlawful and illegitimate.
Ukraine claimed that Russian proxies pushed minors to vote in order to provide the appearance of increased participation, while residents reported being forced to vote – some at gunpoint.