The American businessman Elon Musk, who founded Tesla and SpaceX and owns Twitter, refused to delete a message from the vice chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev which was posted on Saturday on the social platform.

One of the Twitter subscribers drew Musk’s attention to Medvedev’s tweet in which he explains the reasons “why Ukraine will disappear.” “Because no one needs it” he notes. The former Russian president and prime minister claims, among other things, that neither Europe, nor the USA, nor Africa and Latin America, nor Asia, nor Russia, nor its own citizens need Ukraine with its Nazi leaders.”

The American billionaire replied that “I’ve been told that Putin called me a war criminal for helping Ukraine, so he’s not exactly my best friend. All the news is to some extent propaganda. Let’s let people make decisions for themselves,” adding that “the platform is not intended to limit or promote accounts of Russian state structures. It is a weak move to censor just because others are doing it. To let our press go free when it’s not theirs shows strength,” he insisted.

In April last year, Twitter announced that it would block users of the social network who have accounts linked to government authorities that allegedly restrict access to the open internet. At the time, a company representative said the measure would primarily affect the Russian government and affect more than 300 accounts.