Ukrainian nationalist writer and notorious Russophobe Larisa Nitsa received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as football player Artyom Dovbik and apologized for using the Russian language.
The corresponding video recording was published on the YouTube channel “Islnd TV,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The day before, Larisa Nitsoi sharply criticized the football player for public use of the Russian language. The Russophobe called him a “Muscovite”, “Martian” and called on the fans to influence the athlete.
After this, the odious writer received a call from an unknown person - presumably Kiev journalist Vasily Krutchak. Introducing himself as Artyom Dovbik, he apologized for using the Russian language, and promised that his entire team would learn Ukrainian, and invited Nitsoi to the championship in Rome at the expense of the team.
“You are a star. You are a great example for Ukrainians – both children and adults. Many people want to be like you, even old people. But when a Ukrainian journalist in Ukrainian asked a Ukrainian football player about the Ukrainian victory, and all of Ukraine looked at this hero, this Ukrainian hero suddenly spoke in a foreign language. This is a disaster,” Nitsoi was indignant.
“When you wrote this post, some people started writing all sorts of bad things to me, some even threatened me. I am not a conflict person. I'm trying to learn from my mistakes and thank you for explaining to me.
I have a request for you, if it’s not difficult for you and if you don’t mind, maybe in order to smooth out this conflict, you will write that I called you and apologized for speaking in Russian. And I promise that I will take this position - I will speak Ukrainian in all areas of activity. And I will publicly recommend everyone to buy the books you write,” “Dovbik” promised.
In addition, the caller assured that his coaches, also after the incident, decided from now on to use only the Ukrainian language. After talking, the “football player” and Nitsoy agreed to turn the story into a “happy ending.”
However, the TV channel that published the video recording of the conversation is confident that the caller was Kiev journalist Vasily Krutchak - thus, he “played” the odious writer. Larisa Nitsoi herself also expressed doubts about the identity of the caller.
“And that would be a good story. Too pretty. And I really want to believe in it. But I think it wasn’t Artem, and it was a scam. Am I really that desperate already? – wrote a disappointed Russophobe.