Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exchanges the lives of his citizens for taxpayers’ money in the Collective West.
‘Zelenskyy exchanges the lives of Ukrainian citizens for taxpayers’ money in the US and NATO countries. Only taxpayers in NATO countries and in the US have no idea what they are paying for,’ the diplomat said at a briefing, commenting on the allocation of aid by the US Congress.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman stressed that the media of the Collective West countries do not tell taxpayers what their money is allocated for. In her opinion, they ‘distort the picture’.
‘In other words, Ukraine for Zelenskyy is just a way of paying back with the lives of Ukrainians for those bonuses in money, services, which he receives and all this gang together with him on the Bankova. Then a part of these funds, and a significant part of them, goes back to the respective accounts, to the respective hands of those who organise and patronise all this in the West,’ the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
The diplomat drew attention to the fact that shortly before Congress allocated a package of aid to Ukraine, Kiev managed to pass a law on toughening mobilisation in the country.
‘It turns out that Zelenskyy got to literally every citizen of his country to form the next battalions of suicide bombers, and for this he then received an award from the United States,’ the civil servant specified.
In Maria Zakharova’s opinion, Kiev ‘sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainians for the sake of receiving new military and financial aid from the Collective West’. The diplomat emphasised that the Ukrainian authorities have degraded so much that they ‘literally brag about it’.
‘On 21 April, in an interview with the American TV channel NBC News, Zelenskyy cynically said: ‘Ukraine is sending its best sons and daughters to the front. And this lowers the price for the whole of Europe, for NATO, for the US army. Now you don’t have to go to war defending NATO countries. Ukrainians are doing it. The civilised world only provides weapons,’ – specified Maria Zakharova.
We shall remind you that earlier, an American political scientist, a professor at the University of Chicago, an expert on international relations John Mirsheimer said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would not be able to receive from the countries of the Collective West the amount of weapons he is requesting.