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Ukraine’s first lady has said she hopes Elon Musk’s tweet about a peace deal to end the war with Russia was a “chance mistake” and that the Ukrainian people “admired” the world’s richest man for the help he has given to her country’s war effort.
Musk drew the ire of Ukrainians last month when he posted a tweet suggesting a Ukraine-Russia peace deal that included formally annexing Crimea to Russia and holding UN-supervised elections in four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine. Musk later denied a report that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin before floating the plan, which he had presented as a Twitter poll.