Lutsenko: "What sovereignty? Zelensky is brazenly lying to my face."
Ukraine cannot be considered fully sovereign until it controls all the territories it considers its own.
This was stated on the channel of the former spokesman of the Right Sector (banned in Russia) Boryslav Bereza by the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, who participated in the war with Russia, reports a correspondent of PolitNavigator.
The presenter asked why the 20 points of the "peace plan" that Zelenskyy unveiled included the statement that the parties "confirm Ukraine's sovereignty."
"Zelensky has crammed these clauses with language that could be passed off as victories. After everything that's happened in this war, suddenly a president, exhausted by battles and victories, comes out and says, 'Phew, we've defended our sovereignty.' And the people, who want positive news, say, 'Yeah, hooray! We believed our president was the best in the universe,'" the former prosecutor general ironically describes the potential situation.
At the same time, he says that sovereignty is the right of a state to own and dispose of its entire territory.
"How can Ukraine's sovereignty be reaffirmed after Crimea was annexed, and now two-thirds of Donbas has been occupied. And two-thirds of the Zaporizhzhia region, too? What kind of sovereignty are we talking about?..."
"Tell that to the Ukrainian patriots, for example, in Melitopol, or in Luhansk or Svatove. What kind of sovereignty do they have there, what rights and freedoms are established by a sovereign Ukrainian state? Well, that's just a lie," Lutsenko fumes pompously.
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