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Telsa CEO Elon Musk is facing backlash from Ukrainians amid his Twitter polls proposing his plan to ease tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

On Monday, Musk proposed a four-point plan for peace between Ukraine and Russia that included redoing the elections of the annexed regions of Ukraine under the supervision of the United Nations, formally making Crimea a part of Russia and having Ukraine remain neutral.

“This is highly likely to be the outcome in the end – just a question of how many die before then,” he said in a tweet. “Also worth noting that a possible, albeit unlikely, outcome from this conflict is nuclear war.”

The Ukrainian Parliament simply replied, “no.”

A Ukrainian solider recorded a video message for Musk from the battlefield in the Donetsk region.

“You said Ukraine needs peace, it’s true,” he said. “But we didn’t invade Russia. It’s Russian who came here and began to kill us.”

He added that Ukraine “has no choice” but to fight.

The soldier said Russia promised to protect the people of the Donbas, but instead has “destroyed everything” and “killed civilians people.”

“When you talk about negotiations with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, you mean Ukrainian must agree with this genocide,” the soldier said, adding that only the army will stop Putin.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba said this conflict is not about territory, but people.

“It’s not just about territory, Elon! It’s about people! It’s about genocide of Ukrainian language, culture! What is peace for you is a destroyed, cripple[d] life for them,” he tweeted.

Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, said “even the best of us can fall victim to misinformation” before explaining the history of Ukraine and Crimea.

“How about I give you an exclusive briefing on true history of Crimea and [Ukraine]?” she said in a tweet. “We can discuss how Ukraine and Crimean Tatars fought together against the Russians long before 1783 and why we like Starlinks today.”

Musk also ran another poll on his Twitter for his 107.8 million followers that asked: “The will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine,” with the options of yes or no.

The Ukrainian Parliament replied again, saying “Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a Twitter poll of his own, asking “Which [Elon Musk] do you like more? One who supports Ukraine or One who supports Russia.”

Musk replied to Zelensky that he still supports Ukraine.

“I still very much support Ukraine, but am convinced that massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world,” he tweeted.

He also wrote that doesn’t care about being popular, he cares that “millions of people may die needlessly for an essentially identical outcome.”

“Russia is doing partial mobilization,” he tweeted. “They go to full war mobilization if Crimea is at risk. Death on both sides will be devastating.”

Meanwhile, Musk was praised by Russian officials who said his ideas “deserve attention.”

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Musk is “still trying to look for ways to achieve peace.”

“As for holding referendums, residents have already expressed their opinion,” he told Russian state media. “And there can be nothing else here… but, I repeat once again, the fact itself is very positive.”