Vladimir Putin has piled praise onto Elon Musk and called him a rare “pioneer” for his ambitions to go to Mars.
The Russian president, who has already made his admiration for “courageous” Donald Trump very clear, did not hold back when talking about the president’s adviser – who also happens to be the richest man in the world.
According to Russian state-owned media outlet TASS, Putin told students at Bauman Moscow State Technical University: “You know, there’s a man – he lives in the [United] States – Musk, who, one might say, raves about Mars.
“It is not often that such people, charged with a certain idea, appear in the human population.
“It seems incredible to me today, after a while such ideas often materialise.”
Musk runs SpaceX a space technology company which claims it will be able to reach Mars in 2026.
Putin continued: “Just like in their time the ideas of Korolev, our other pioneers, got to materialise. They seemed incredible – some of the plans they made. But they all materialised.”
Sergei Korolev led the Soviet Union’s space programme at the height of its competition with the US to reach the moon, in the 50s and 60s.
Putin also expressed his admiration for the tech magnate last year, when he told former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that that “there’s no stopping Elon Musk” and he will “do as he sees fit”.
These new comments from the Russian leader come as the US is trying to push Putin into a quick peace deal in the Ukraine war.
The Trump administration has stunned the west in recent months by siding with Putin, even as he drags his heels over ending the conflict he started.
Instead of encouraging Russia to withdraw, the US special envoy Steve Witkoff suggested this week that Ukraine should give up five territories to Russia in exchange for peace – an idea Kyiv has robustly rejected.
Musk has also been accused of repeating Kremlin remarks, having once claimed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of starting a “forever war” with Russia.
It’s worth remembering that it was Putin who actually started the war in February 2022 by invading Ukraine. Russia still occupies a fifth of Ukrainian land to this day.
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