Elon Musk tweeted about dying mysteriously. Is he trolling Russia’s space boss?

World’s richest person Elon Musk joked on Twitter on Sunday he could ‘die under mysterious circumstances’

It followed comments he said were made by Russia’s space chief attacking the supply of Starlink terminals to Ukraine

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Published: 11:33am, 10 May 2022Updated: 11:42am, 10 May 2022

Elon Musk appeared to joke on Sunday that he could “die under mysterious circumstances” following a statement he said Roscosmos Space Chief Dmitry Rogozin made to Russian state media.

In the statement that Musk said was made by Rogozin, the Russian space chief appeared to take aim at the SpaceX CEO.

“The internet terminals of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite company were delivered to the militants of the Nazi Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Marines in Mariupol by military helicopters,” Rogozin said, according to a translation of the comments posted by Musk. “Elon Musk, thus, is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment. And for this, Elon, you will be held accountable like an adult – no matter how much you’ll play the fool,” the translation continues.

Later, Rogozin issued a series of responses to Musk’s tweets, including his missive about if he were to die under mysterious circumstances.

“Nobody needs you,” Rogozin tweeted per a Business Insider translation of the private tweet. “Stop fooling around.”

Heating up

The Twitter spat was just the latest of many public arguments between the two men.