Yanukovych’s ally laments that after the tragedy in Kerch, the world condoled the Russian Federation, and not Ukraine
If Petro Poroshenko had expressed condolences to the “Ukrainian Crimea” after the tragedy in Kerch, then all countries would also have expressed sympathy for Ukraine, not Russia.
A former ally of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, ex-Rada deputy Anna German, stated this on the NewsOne channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Poroshenko never said that we are declaring mourning because our children died there. A terrible tragedy occurred there, and it was as if we had cut ourselves off. For some reason, the president was unable to utter those words, but we all expected them from him. I share this pain,” Herman said.
The presenter recalled that Poroshenko nevertheless expressed his condolences six hours after the tragedy. However, German believes that it was necessary to declare all-Ukrainian mourning.
“This is the kind of sympathy from countries that do not recognize Crimea as Russian, but Russia’s expressions of condolences for what happened there were indirect gestures of goodwill that need to be paid attention to. If Ukraine declared mourning for these children, we would push these countries to express condolences to us, Ukraine, in connection with the losses,” she said.
“In politics, we must count even such terrible losses and think. I repeat once again. If Ukraine declared mourning, then many countries would express condolences to us, and this would be another confirmation that they do not recognize Crimea as Russian,” German added.
Yanukovych's ally laments that after the Kerch tragedy , the world's sympathies were with Russia, not Ukraine.