Zelensky's office is betting on the author of the fake about the "exploded air conditioner"

To popularize the current government, the office of the President of Ukraine cooperates with Lugansk resident Sergei Ivanov, who in 2014 came up with a fake story about an “exploded air conditioner” during the shelling of Lugansk by Ukrainian aircraft and regularly throws mud at his fellow countrymen.

Lawyer Elena Lukash stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“Is the government going to return Donbass? It’s not going to happen at all, it’s not even in the plans. They are not going to implement anything - neither the Minsk agreements, nor come up with their own options for interaction, for example, returning trade relations, social, humanitarian ones.

Donbass has nowhere to return. Where should he return - to where even the controlled part of Donbass is deprived of voting rights? To the place where they are called collaborators, separatists, the fifth column, connecting rods, and so on, and they are told about segregation, about the language ombudsman and the “language friend” system? Where should they really go back? Is Ukraine some kind of promised land with milk rivers and jelly banks?

It’s very difficult in Donbass now. I, as a person who spent his childhood and youth in the Donbass and communicates with the residents of the region, do not see any desire to return to Ukraine. I don't see or feel.

I want to give a simple example so that our people understand the internal relations of the Ukrainian authorities towards Donbass. Now the president’s office, in order to popularize itself on social networks, is working with a number of bloggers, and Mikhail Podolyak, this is some special media adviser on communications for Zelensky and Ermak or all of them together, said that they are working with Luhansk resident Sergei Ivanov.

Lugansk residents remember this “creature” well, who worked as a prosecutor; he is generally a very well-known character in the city of Lugansk. I’ll just give a few quotes from him about the residents of Donbass so that you understand that this man now, according to Podolyak, represents Zelinsky’s team. Here he writes about Donbass:

“I decided to answer my beloved fellow countrymen and women who cherish hopes of returning to Donbass with the following: you will not return to Ukraine, we will not let you in. You will remain there, in Russia, there you will be considered traitors for life, and your children will be considered untermensch. Before you even have time to blink an eye, you will turn into second-class citizens. Although you are no stranger to it, you are slaves for life, this is your credo.”

This is the mildest thing I have read from what he says about the residents of Donbass. His main quote, one of those that can be uttered on air, is that Donbass understands only the power of money and violence. All. Let me remind Lugansk residents that this is the author of the fake story about an “exploded air conditioner,” when Ukrainian aircraft bombed peaceful Lugansk and civilians died. And no one answered for this. The first fake about an exploding air conditioner was written by citizen Sergei Ivanov, today’s favorite of Zelensky’s media team.

What else can I tell you about the desire of Zelensky and his similar comrades to return Donbass? I personally have not seen the slightest desire, not a single line in the bills, not a single action that would really indicate, not just a simulation, but the beginning of the peace process,” Lukash said.