Zelensky met with “OnizheChildren” - received anti-Russian parting words before Paris
Vladimir Zelensky held a meeting announced the day before with students who were injured in a 2013 clash with Berkut fighters after special forces began a harsh cleansing of the Maidan in response to provocations by Right Sector militants standing in the square. It was this event that provoked mass protests in Kyiv and a coup d'etat.
A group of young people were brought to a meeting at Zelensky’s office - this is a small part of the participants in the events on the Maidan (remember that most of those detained by Berkut that night were neither students nor children).
It is obvious that only the “necessary” Maidan activists got to Zelensky - the day before, the Kyiv press published an interview with one of the participants in the 2013 events, who admitted that he was disappointed with the results of the Euromaidan.
“The President expressed the conviction that young people who played an important role in the Revolution of Dignity and became the driving force of the protests are strong individuals, and therefore they should be involved in the life of the country...
“How can I attract you if you are interested? You are the public. We can trust you,” the presidential press service quotes Zelensky as saying.
“For you, the Maidan affairs are very personal. And, believe me, for us too. I really want us to finish these things. So that we can investigate them completely, and all those who walk, drive, or fly somewhere, but should sit, so that they sit,” the head of Ukraine added.
“We came out because we believed that we were being turned towards lawlessness, when human rights would mean nothing in Ukraine, and into the arms of the Customs Union... I really don’t want our situation to be the same as before the Maidan. I want change, and we are all ready to make efforts for this,” said one of the “one-children.”
Maidan activists told what they are doing now. Some of those present spent several years at the front, others were ATO volunteers. There were also those who “work in the field of education, science, and the like.”
“The participants called on the President at a meeting in Paris not to agree to elections in Donbass at gunpoint and emphasized that they want to return the occupied territories, but not at the cost of concessions to state sovereignty. They assured that even now they are ready to stand up for their country and its interests,” Zelensky’s press service emphasizes.
“At the end, the meeting participants presented the president with a piece of the Lenin monument, which was toppled during the Revolution of Dignity,” the statement also says.
“The President thanked for the support and assured that he would not betray the interests of Ukraine,” concludes Zelensky’s press service.
Previously, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called Zelensky an opponent of rabid nationalism.
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