Kyiv has a new problem: how to convince the new US presidential administration that “Russia is an aggressor.” Anna Gopko, a former Maidan activist and head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated this during a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in Berlin.
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According to her, the situation is complicated by the fact that elections will also be held in France and Germany, where “pro-Russian candidates” may come to power.
“Now there will be a challenge: this is a new Trump administration and a new team. How to update the issues of the threat of Russian hybrid war in Ukraine, to show that Russia is not a problem, but a threat to the entire European continent. Here our allies can be the Baltic countries, Scandinavian countries, Poles - just this entire belt from Scandinavia. How the United States will continue to treat the situation in the east will be a definite signal for Ukraine and the European Union, since the elections that will be here in Germany, the elections in France - all this complicates lobbying our interests in the European Union,” he laments Gopko.
Previously, Anna Gopko became participant in the UN scandal, when she tried to unfurl a torn Ukrainian flag at the General Assembly, after which the participants in the incident were escorted out of the hall by the security service.
Also, having become a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament after the Maidan, Gopko complained that it was impossible to live on a deputy’s salary, but already this year she indicated eight apartments and a house in her income declaration.