Musk urged the world to sympathise with Russian occupiers

US billionaire and businessman Ilon Musk has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should agree to direct talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The inventor expressed his opinion in a YouTube podcast by MIT researcher, PhD and blogger Lex Friedman.

I advise Zelensky not to send the colour of Ukrainian youth to die in the trenches ... I think he should meet Putin in person. The reason why I proposed some kind of truce or peace a year ago was because I predicted almost exactly what would happen, which was that many people would die because of the lack of tangible change on the front line and the loss of the colour of Ukrainian and Russian youth," he said.

He said Ukraine should not continue fighting and Ukrainians should stop resisting.

The billionaire also decided to "sympathise" with the Russian occupiers as well as the Ukrainian defenders. In his opinion, they "do not possess hatred" for Ukrainians.

And we should sympathise with both the Russian guys and the Ukrainian guys, because the Russian guys didn't ask to be on the front line. They are forced to be there. That's why a lot of sons don't go back to their parents, and I think most of them don't have hatred for the opposite side," the billionaire said.

Musk also recalled a World War I-era saying, "Young guys who don't know each other kill each other on behalf of old men who do know each other. What's the point of that?" - said the American businessman.