Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov sparked social media buzz this week after posting a video of himself affixed with what appeared to be a machine gun on top. But while the might look like something out of "Star Wars" — and may boast that could be useful in — the futuristic EV is likely to prove effectively useless on the actual battlefield, a military expert told Business Insider. "Where do you recharge this thing on the battlefield? There are no Tesla outlets on the front lines in the Donbas," said Mark Cancian, a senior advisor on the International Security Program at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and retired US Marine Corps colonel.

In a Saturday Telegram post, celebrated the Cybertruck, saying he personally understood why it's "rightfully called the Cyberbeast." Kadyrov, who is a longtime , also praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying Chechnya received the Cybertruck from Musk himself — a claim the billionaire strongly denied on X. Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general? Musk used an ableist slur to if a user actually believed he "donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general.

" Kadyrov also claimed the Cybertruck would soon be sent to the battlefield, where two and a half years after Russia invaded the country in February 2022. "I am confident that this 'beast' will greatly benefit our soldiers," Kadyrov wrote. The leader said earlier this year that more than 43,000 Chechen fighters had served in Ukraine si.