The Washington Post article makes clear that Musk was speaking to the Russian ambassador, according to Isaacson, although Musk went further and made it sound li

The Washington Post article makes clear that Musk was speaking to the Russian ambassador, according to Isaacson, although Musk went further and made it sound like he was talking to Putin himself. >Although he had readily supported Ukraine, he believed it was reckless for Ukraine to launch an attack on Crimea, which Russia had annexed in 2014. He had just spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States. (In later conversations with a few other people, he seemed to imply that he had spoken directly to President Vladimir Putin, but to me he said his communications had gone through the ambassador.) The ambassador had explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would lead to a nuclear response. Musk explained to me in great detail, as I stood behind the bleachers, the Russian laws and doctrines that decreed such a response.