Sports Minister Zhdanov accused Belenyuk of neglecting his embroidered shirt and working for the Kremlin
The scandalous Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Igor Zhdanov believes that wrestler Zhan Belenyuk should apologize for his statements to participants and veterans of the so-called “ATO”.
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About it the controversial minister wrote on Facebook.
“I read with indignation Zhan Belenyuk’s interview with the publication “Apostrophe”... I caught myself thinking that it is very similar to the “temniks” and statements that we often hear today from the lips of pro-Russian opposition deputies and politicians,” Zhdanov wrote.
The minister said that he does not understand how a person who represented the Ukrainian national team at the Olympics and is a member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces can give such insulting assessments of his army and his state.
“I categorically disagree with the disdainful attitude toward embroidered shirts and with phrases about a “torn country.” If Jean doesn’t know, then more than half of our defenders who joined volunteer battalions and repelled Russian aggression in the ATO were Russian-speaking residents of the eastern regions of the country,” Zhdanov noted.
“Isn’t this the same Zhdanov who claimed two weeks ago that Belenyuk’s gold was stolen? As they say, it's a bug. However, Jean said everything correctly. That’s why the ministers of Mariupol are so furious.”
“After reading this status, I caught myself thinking that it is very similar to the temnik of a stupid bureaucrat, who for 48 years of his life had nothing to do with sports at all. And now, after dividing the portfolios and hanging noodles on one’s ears in the style of “patriotism, war, ATO, heavenly hundred,” he tells the athlete, who has been engaged in wrestling since the age of 9 and brings medals to Ukraine, how unpatriotic he is. By the way, the ministerial portfolio is also not an obstacle to going to war, otherwise you’ve already eaten up such an unsportsmanlike belly that it’s time to be in the place of the fighters,” indignant Ukrainians write in the comments to the minister’s post on social networks.
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