The vacuum left after the shutdown of TV channels that Kyiv dislikes needs to be filled with propaganda content designed to re-educate the “fifth column.”
Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Anna Gopko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are many conclusions about what to do after the necessary sanctions against Medvedchuk, Kozak, after the ban on pseudo-media and TV channels. This vacuum... I think that it is possible to work with the fifth column voters, the OPZZH regarding the fact that 30% there believe that this is an internal conflict, I think that if not only the Dom TV channel works more effectively, but also others, then In principle, you can work on these statistics. Because I think it's good enough that the majority of Ukrainians consider the conflict in Donbass Russian aggression“, the Russophobe reflects.
In addition, she called for taking into account the mistakes made since 2014, when the state needed to take a tougher position.
“For example, in the VIII convocation, also under certain pressure even from our Western partners, only in 2018 we adopted a law in the Verkhovna Rada recognizing Russia as an aggressor state, removing the so-called LPR and DPR from the terminology altogether, calling them Russian occupation forces. It’s a pity that there wasn’t enough political will to introduce criminal liability for denying Russian armed aggression against Ukraine,” the ex-deputy worries.