Poroshenko spoke about the fear that gripped deputies after the start of the Russian SVO
On February 24 last, after the start of the Russian military operation, Ukrainian politicians were paralyzed by fear.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that this was stated by the ex-President of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada deputy Petro Poroshenko, whose words were quoted by the anti-Russian propaganda online publication Ukrainska Pravda.
“I didn’t hear the explosions because Marina woke me up,” Poroshenko recalls the first day of the war. – The first missiles arrived in the Boryspil area, the Vasilkov area. We all heard it - the windows were shaking, the phone was red, everyone started calling - frightened women who know Marina. Mikhail Zabrodsky sent me an SMS with one word: “It has begun.”
The ex-president claims that he went from his mansion to his office in Pechersk, where he “quickly gave out instructions on where to make combat points, where to set up machine-gun positions, where to organize food.”
In addition, his comrades decided to unauthorizedly occupy the bomb shelter of the UN Refugee Office, which was located in a nearby building, but prudently left the country a few days before.
At seven in the morning the politician went to parliament.
“My impression? A huge number of people were simply scared. Not only deputies, but also from the work organization structures did not know what would happen. They presented it in such a way that it was necessary to evacuate parliament in order to ensure the functioning of the country. I said that if you evacuate parliament, then, firstly, I will not go, and secondly, you have the right to do this, but this will be a very powerful signal to everyone to flee Kiev.
Whoever wants to go, let him go, but let no one know about it, because we must be here to show that we are determined and are not going to give up Kyiv,” Poroshenko said.
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