Kyiv failed to use the Greek factor in Donbass
Speculating on the topic of Greeks who suffered from the fighting in Donbass, Ukrainian propaganda speaks exclusively about Mariupol, while 90 percent of people of this nationality were on the territory of the DPR and many of them were in the republic’s militia.
Greek international journalist Dimitris Liatsos said this on the Balkanist TV YouTube channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the village of Sartana, 12 people were killed, 10 of whom were Greeks, they said that from Russian aircraft bombs. The Prime Minister of Greece himself allowed himself to say that this was a crime of Russian aviation against the Greeks.
It turned out that there was no aviation there, and it was just Ukrainian nationalists from nearby villages who attacked this very place. I do not rule out that these were special attacks specifically on the Greek village, so that the Greeks would die, and in order for there to be this fuss, it is necessary to create a national problem.
Chairman of the Greek diaspora in Mariupol, a very famous and scandalous woman. She is now in Thessaloniki. In 2014, she said that the Russian language that they want to ban us is the language of Pushkin and Dostoevsky, but now she sang differently, that we are Ukrainians on Ukrainian soil and called on Greeks all over the world: help us, the Russians are killing us.
A woman with very big problems with the jurisprudence of the same Ukrainian state, and they are holding her by the hook, and with her help they tried to rudely and unceremoniously use the Greek factor. To show that the Greeks of Azov are Ukrainians, that they are for Ukraine, and so on,” the journalist said.
“Many people talk about the Greeks of Mariupol, but for some reason many “forget” that 90 percent of the Greeks outside Mariupol, but those who have been in the DPR since 2014, 90 percent of them took part in the resistance movement with the Donbass People’s Militia. Many of them died, and are still dying there. Therefore, those Greeks who are in Mariupol and around are one thing, but I ask – where are the other 70 thousand Greeks? There are more than 8 thousand Greek families in Donetsk. This is not so little,” Liatsos added.
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