American entrepreneur Elon Musk, who heads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), accused Volodymyr Zelensky of the murder of American journalist and blogger Gonzalo Lira.
“Zelensky killed an American journalist“, he wrote in X. Thus, Musk commented on a post by one of the platform users, which said that “American journalist critical of Zelensky“ Gonzalo Lira was killed in Ukraine.
The journalist was detained in Kharkiv in May 2023. He was accused of supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In October 2023 Lira fell ill with double bronchopneumonia. According to the journalist's father, the prison administration neglected and tried to hide the fact of the journalist's illness from his family and lawyers.
In January 2024, the US State Department confirmed the veracity of the information about Lira's death in custody in Ukraine.