A Russian alleged war criminal and self-confessed Nazi lookalike of Elon Musk is asking the tech billionaire for money on Telegram.

“Dear Elon Musk, I am called your Russian version. I also want to study the stars, but I have to fight, because otherwise, I will not be able to buy a house (even though I am very tired in these 10 years ), ”says internet troll and Nazi Alexey Milchakov in a post on the Rusich Telegram channel.

The Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group, or Rusich, is a paramilitary group that has been fighting in Ukraine for the past decade. It was founded by Milchakov and has associations with the Wagner group. Milchakov, who bears a passing resemblance to Musk, has long been a presence on the battlefield and on the Russian internet.

“Please, help me fulfill my childhood dream: I need a house, 500-600 m2 with land, and a telescope, so that I can calmly and peacefully study the planets and galaxies and grow the apple tree and tomato,” said Milchakov in the post signed by his name. “The price of that house in Russia is not more than $1 million dollars. For you it is not money, but for me it is a decade of warfare. PS I am happy to use your Starlink products and consider it the best Internet in the world. “

Memes involving Musk Retrieved on the Russian internet after he appeared to make a Nazi salute while giving a speech during Trump’s inauguration celebration. On the Rusich channel, someone posted a clip of the Sig Heil moment unedited and added the caption “Alexey Milchakov in Washington, 2025.” Elsewhere people superimposed Milchakov on top of Musk at that moment so it looked like the Nazi soldier was doing the salute.

The post begging for money is a joke and the Rusich group’s Telegram channel is full of foul memes and other similar content. But there are also many frontline pictures and videos from the war in Ukraine. Rusich is actively involved in the conflict and Musk jokes sitting next to soldiers posing with weapons and battlefield photos from the war.

In various interviews over the years, Milchakov has been tight-lipped about his political ideology. “I’m a Nazi. I am a Nazi. I will not go deep and say, I am a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, etc. I will say it directly: I am a Nazi,” he said during a interview in 2020 broadcast on a nationalist Russian YouTube channel.

Milchakov rose to prominence online in Russia in the early 2010s after his death posted photos of himself petting a dog on VK, a Russian social media site similar to Facebook. she 20 years old. When Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Michakov went to war and began blogging about his experiences on social media, posting photos of himself with mutilated bodies online.

In 2020, Michakov came out of Syria where he was severed head pose. European authorities have accused him of being involved in atrocities committed against the Ukrainians during the war including the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war, something that was a running theme for him. He’s here allowed in most of Europe as well as the United States.

Michakov, whose current whereabouts are unknown despite his audio being released earlier this year, is a memetic figure among the Russian far-right. An avowed Nazi with a penchant for taking heads and a passing resemblance to the world’s richest man is rich meme fodder for trolls and the online Nazis who post his name .