Ukraine may be interesting to Elon Musk – Zelensky's office

Ukraine may be interesting to CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk due to its lithium deposits.

This was announced by Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President's Office Ihor Zhovkva in an interview for the TV news service TSN.ua.

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"Yes, it was an invitation for Elon Musk, we all read about it on Twitter," Zhovkva said, commenting on the fact that President Volodymyr Zelensky had on Twitter invited Elon Musk to Zhytomyr.

According to Zhovkva, Musk's visit to Ukraine is quite possible.

"Why not? By the way, we could talk a lot about why Elon Musk may be interested in Ukraine. I will name only one subject – lithium. Shall I continue? We have lithium deposits, we have capacities how to produce and supply this lithium. What are batteries made of? This is just one example," Zhovkva noted.

Invitation from Zelensky

• On January 12, 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Elon Musk to visit the city of Zhytomyr, the home city and a museum of a globally acclaimed rocket engineer and spacecraft designer, Serhiy Korolyov (Sergei Korolev), whom the Space X founder is known to admire.
• "Today is the birthday of the great Ukrainian scientist, rocket engineer and spacecraft designer – Serhiy Korolyov. Indeed, he was one of the best," Zelensky tweeted on January 12, adding: "I want to invite his longtime admirer, Elon Musk, to Ukraine to see the Sergei Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics."