Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apology to Israel for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s words about Hitler’s Jewish origins “are not sincere,” according to the former Ukrainian president. Petro Poroshenko, interviewed by Retequattro broadcast “White Zone”, the same one in which Lavrov was a guest. During the interview, which will air in full this evening, Poroshenko said that if Putin “were sincere, he would not have worked even a minute after this position, after this anti-Israeli and anti-Ukrainian statement. It is a fake that is spreading“.
“Putin, after everything Lavrov said in his interview, he had to immediately fire him or even make him responsible for his statements “, explained the former Ukrainian president.
“I want to tell Mr. Lavrov that if Ukraine stops shooting, even now, there will be no more Ukraine. But if Russia stops shooting, then there will be peace. This is the difference in our positions “, he continued. In the interview – said Poroshenko -” Lavrov accused Ukraine, accused us of opposing Russian aggression in 2014. And then he accused me of having given the order to make the counter-offensive “, while”I want to remind you that in 2014 the first thing I did as president was a unilateral and complete ceasefire for ten days. I had given the Russians ten days to be able to leave the Ukrainian occupied territories. And after that, at the end of these ten days, during which they hadn’t even taken a step, as leader, as commander in the war period, I decided to make the counter-offensive, after which we liberated two thirds of the occupied Donbass, when we still had the sanctions and limitations for the supply of weapons by the European Union, due to Janukovyc “.
Lavrov – continued the former Ukrainian president – “insinuated that in 2014 I created the Ukrainian armed forces and we did not have any, we did not have how to defend ourselves. These armed forces were very motivated and in five years of my presidency we have armed them very well. , together with our NATO partners. Lavrov did not like this. “
“Everything that Lavrov does not like – observed Poroshenko – is a strong confirmation of the fact that we are doing well, we do our thing well. We surprised the whole world with the strength of our armed forces and we showed the cohesion of the our nation “.
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