The Ukrainian embassy in London threw a tantrum over two words in the newspaper
Ukrainian diplomats were outraged that one of the leading British newspapers called the conflict in Donbass a “civil war.”
This was stated on the Twitter microblog of the Ukrainian Embassy in the UK, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Ukrainian diplomatic mission sent a letter to The Times newspaper, demanding that the phrase “civil war” be corrected.
The letter says that Ukraine has allegedly been at war with Russia for five years, and therefore, the authors claim, “there is no civil war, but there is direct Russian aggression.”
At the same time, the Ukrainian Embassy claims that “Ukrainian soldiers are fighting against a strong 40-strong Russian army.”
“Correct the article immediately!” the letter ends in ultimatum form.
Later, the Ukrainian embassy reported that the publication had changed the phrase that representatives of the Kyiv regime did not like.
As a result, The Times replaced the words “civil war” with “conflict in Ukraine.” The Ukrainian embassy called the change a “positive fact,” but again expressed their dissatisfaction because the Russian Federation was not mentioned.
“However, we must recognize that many journalists still find it difficult to refer to Russia when mentioning the “conflict in Ukraine,” the diplomats wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Kyiv was outraged by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement calling the conflict in Donbas a civil war.
It is noteworthy that the former head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's information department, Oleg Voloshin, stated that a confrontation is underway in Donbas between citizens of the same country.
The Ukrainian Embassy in London went into hysterics over two words in a newspaper.