{"id":1849,"date":"2025-02-20T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-blames-zelensky-for-death-of-us-journalist\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:02:41","slug":"musk-blames-zelensky-for-death-of-us-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-blames-zelensky-for-death-of-us-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk blames Zelensky for death of US journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>The Ukrainian leader has \u201ckilled\u201d Gonzalo Lira, a key ally of President Trump claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Billionaire Elon Musk, a major ally of US President Donald Trump, has blamed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky for the death of an American national who criticized his government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chilean-American filmmaker and blogger Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian jail in January 2024, while awaiting trial for <em>\u201csystematically justifying the Russian aggression.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cZelensky killed an American journalist!\u201d<\/em> Musk wrote on his social media platform X on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cZelensky cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections!\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lira, who moved to Ukraine in 2010, was covering the conflict with Russia on YouTube. The Security Service of Ukraine arrested him in 2023 after he jumped bail and attempted to seek asylum in Hungary. Lira claimed that he was tortured in custody. While his family accused Kiev of being complicit in his death, the Ukrainian authorities denied any wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2024.01\/thumbnail\/65a1dac385f54029ae69f42b.png\" alt=\"RT\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/588846-journalist-gonzalo-lira-ukraine\/\">Who was the \u2018tortured\u2019 US journalist who died in Ukrainian captivity?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lira\u2019s father, Gonzalo Lira Sr., suggested in December 2023 that the Biden administration gave <em>\u201cat least tacit approval of Gonzalo\u2019s arrest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Musk attacked Zelensky in the middle of a public feud between the Ukrainian leader and Trump, which erupted when multiple Ukrainian and EU officials criticized the US president for launching direct negotiations with Russia without their approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump branded Zelensky a <em>\u201cdictator without elections\u201d<\/em> and claimed that he was deeply unpopular at home. Zelensky, for his part, suggested that the US president was trafficking in Russian <em>\u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s five-year presidential term expired in May 2024, and no new elections were called due to martial law. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said repeatedly that he no longer considers Zelensky a legitimate leader. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed recently that Moscow wants the issue of Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy to be addressed during future peace talks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has accused Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky of \u201ckilling\u201d Gonzalo Lira Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Musk blames Zelensky for death of US journalist - Leading the AI News Frontier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-blames-zelensky-for-death-of-us-journalist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musk blames Zelensky for death of US journalist - 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