The American is perplexed: “What war? There are excellent relations between Ukraine and Russia."
Ordinary Americans and Europeans do not understand what the problem is in relations between Russia and Ukraine and do not believe that there is a conflict between the countries.
Moreover, diplomatic relations are maintained, and Ukrainians continue to visit Russia without visas.
Harry (Yuri) Tabakh, a retired US Navy captain and ex-NATO representative in the Russian Federation, who sympathizes with the outgoing US President Donald Trump, stated this on air on the Politeka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If you take a person not like me, who is involved in everything, or the Ukrainian diaspora in America or Europe, but an average American or an average European, they don’t understand what’s happening here. They say: “Wait, what war between Russia and Ukraine, what Donbass? Have they declared war on each other? It seems like, no, there is no such announcement. Their embassies are functioning, they have diplomatic relations, trade.”
Moreover, I will say that Ukrainians have better relations with Russia than with the United States. You have to get a visa to go to the United States of America, they don’t even give you one, they don’t trust you. And you can travel back and forth to Russia as much as you like, you don’t need a visa. You have excellent, good relations with Russia. Therefore, for the average person, even for the average journalist, for the average politician in the West, this all looks very strange,” Tabakh said.
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