Chechnya’s strongman leader shows off Tesla Cybertruck with gun turret

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has a new ride — a Tesla Cybertruck … with a twist.
“We received a Tesla Cybertruck from the respected Elon Musk,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram on Saturday.
“I was happy to test the new technology and personally saw that it is not by chance that it is called the ‘Cyberbeast.’ A real invulnerable and fast animal,” he added.
The Chechen warlord — an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — posted a video of himself driving the vehicle, which was fitted with a gun turret, around the grounds of his presidential palace.
At one point in the video, a grinning Kadyrov, wearing a black hood and draped in an ammo belt, stands behind the gun turret bolted to the roof of the vehicle.
He said that the car would “soon be sent” to the battlefield in Ukraine. “I am sure that this ‘beast’ will be of great use to our soldiers,” Kadyrov added.
Kadyrov thanked Tesla owner Musk and extended an invitation to the billionaire to come to Russia.
“Elon, thank you! Come to Grozny, I will receive you as my most dear guest!” he said.
POLITICO contacted Tesla for comment.