Four citizens of Belarus were included in the list of 198 persons against whom Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky imposed sanctions yesterday.
These are journalists Grigory Azarenok, Alexander Osenko and political scientist Alexander Shpakovsky.
Belarusians took this news optimistically.
“I accept congratulations. Now I will be deprived of Ukrainian state awards, my penthouse in Kyiv will be seized and I will not be allowed to privatize state property.
I have nothing against it, but I must add that the main “threat to the national security of Ukraine” is not me at all, but the caricatures of the Kyiv regime led by Zelensky and Danilov. The faster the Ukrainian people get rid of these “threats”, the faster electricity, hot water, lard with vodka and other joys will return. For the sake of this little happiness of an ordinary Ukrainian person, I am even ready to refuse to participate in the privatization of the Dzerzhavsky mine,” Shpakovsky wrote in his TG channel.
Grigory Azarenok responded succinctly:
“Congratulations, colleagues! See you on Khreshchatyk.”
But his colleague Igor Tur makes dates in Odessa.
“My first trip abroad was to the Ukrainian Odessa in 2007. I didn’t like it. Now I’m officially not allowed to go to Ukrainian Odessa for the next 10 years. Although it had been clear for a couple of years that they would either not let me in there, or not let me out, or as they like in Kyiv - “shot by unknown people.”
In this case, I think I have every right to want to visit Russian Odessa. Something tells me that this will happen not in 10 years, but much earlier,” Tur wrote.