Zelensky passed off Russians’ contempt for the Ukrainian authorities as enmity with all Ukrainians
Ukrainians and Russians have turned from friends into enemies. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated this at the Yalta European Strategy forum organized in Kyiv by oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Relations from Ukraine, from the Ukrainian people to the Russians broke down after that. No relationship. If I said that there are partners, there are friends, but who are we now? We became enemies. This is another shelf of relationships. From friends to enemies, imagine this abyss, imagine this distance. No one understands how to overcome it and how to return it. I think it only understands time, how much energy it will spend on all this. Because, in any case, good wins and, in any case, everything will return - territories, people, probably relationships,” Zelensky said.
His words were commented on by the famous Russian military correspondent Alexander Poddubny.
“Someone tell Zelensky that Russians have no respect for the new Ukrainian government, which trades on national interests, kills people in Donetsk and Lugansk, mocks the memory of fathers and grandfathers, resurrects Nazism, names streets after Nazi criminals, engages in terrorism, destroys the common history, fanning the flames of civil war. And these petty people do all this to serve their own financial interests, to please their personal ambitions and, of course, first of all, at the request of their senior comrades from Washington.
Can anyone tell Zelensky this personally?
And Russians respect Ukrainians. Ukrainians who did not sell their country, their memory, their history,” Poddubny explained in his blog.
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