Butusov: State leadership during war is not a comedy show. VIDEO

Zelenskyi believes that Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Ruslan Demchenko did not hand over Crimea to the Russians.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced this during a press marathon. As reported by Censor.NET. 

During the press marathon, Censor.NET Editor-in-Chief Yurii Butusov asked Zelensky: Mr. Supreme Commander-in-Chief, on June 16, 2020, you appointed Ruslan Demchenko, the head of the Intelligence Committee, the head of the Intelligence Committee. He is a former deputy foreign minister under Yanukovych, co-author of the infamous Kharkiv Accords that gave Crimea to the Russians. After his appointment on July 1, a special operation to supply klystrons to Ukraine failed, on July 8, a special operation to seize the Isolation prison failed, our GUR MoD group was opened, and on July 29, a special operation on the Wagnerians failed. Already after Mr. Burba's release, in the same year, 2020, several more special operations of the Ministry of Defense failed, without Burba. Regarding Belarus.

- That is, before all the failures in question, do I understand the question correctly, Burba was responsible for these failures? Do I understand correctly? - interrupted the head of state Butusov.

"You did not let me ask questions, Mr. President," the journalist objected.

"There are a lot of them," Zelensky replied.

- Listen, I haven't asked you any questions yet. I'm just telling you facts that you, as Commander-in-Chief, should know.

"I am the Supreme Commander-in-Chief," Zelensky appealed.

"Yes, it is very important, can I finish?"

"It's just different things - the Commander-in-Chief and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

"I'm glad you already learned this. This is very good. I'll finish. So, after Burba's release, several more GUR MO operations failed. On December 4, Yevhen Golubev, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was ambushed and killed at the hands of the Russians on the border between Ukraine and Russia. His body could not be taken from Russia for a long time. These failures are systemic. There has been no investigation into these failures, no conclusions. I would like to ask you, after these cases, after these failures, without any investigations, 5 heads of GUR MO were fired, 7 employees of GUR MO were detained, among them, there are people who took here, to Ukraine, Tsemakh, thanks to which you were able to exchange, people who destroyed Zakharchenko, Motorola, Givi. I have this question: are you not ashamed, Commander-in-Chief, that you are using your status here live to disgrace the military, to say something to people who cannot answer you here. Live. Instead, you cover people who did not fight, you cover your responsibility, you don't say anything about yourself, you don't talk about Ermak's responsibility. And about Ruslan Demchenko, an outspoken traitor to Ukraine who works for the Russians and is associated with them, whom you illegally appointed to the office during the war.

"As for the Kharkiv agreements ... I raised this issue at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council ... As for Ruslan Demchenko ... When I became President of Ukraine, a person you constantly support, Comrade Poroshenko, this person Ruslan Demchenko worked in the Presidential Administration. .. It was with him that he had some conversations about the Norman meetings and certain Minsk agreements, so you know, as Deputy Foreign Minister. He did not sign any Kharkiv agreements. But there are law enforcement agencies, let them investigate, and he gives evidence of this ... ", - said Zelensky, answering questions from the editor-in-chief of Censor.NET Yuri Butusov.

"I think it's okay, they did their job but did not sign the Kharkiv agreements. Moreover, Demchenko did not even report it to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine," Zelensky said, adding that there are many politicians who voted at the time. for the Kharkiv agreements and which now go on TV channels.

"... Poroshenko hid people: Burba - in intelligence, Demchenko - in the APU ... On the issue of losing Crimea, let's be honest. Mr Turchynov, I do not blame him, but he is one of those people who lost Crimea and Mr Poroshenko - from those people who lost Donbas. That's all. This is my opinion and the opinion of most people. This is my answer to the question that Crimea was given to the Russians by Demchenko, "Zelensky said.

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"The dissemination of information was Burba when he worked in intelligence. You received this information and presented it. Is it true? Tell the truth once. It is possible," Zelensky told Butusov.

"Thank you very much for your questions. I will tell you in detail now. So, you have to know, because you don't know much and a lot of lies about disrupting the special operation are spreading. I want to tell you that everything you have said here is a lie. You say this in order not to be responsible for yourself, for Ermak, for Demchenko, where you violated the law on lustration and appointed a Russian agent. Therefore, your tactic is to lie to people who write about something, to give a bunch of chatter. And since you're using such a short format, it's just fun to come up with a new 95th quarter joke again. So, I want to tell you - your lies are already very visible to everyone. I want to tell you, unlike you, from Ermak, from Demchenko, from other people who were present and should be responsible for the failure of the special operation and other operations of the GUR MO, I immediately gave evidence, back in September 2020 in the DBR. Therefore, I beg you to come to the interrogation of the investigator at least once and stop this lie, because the leadership of the state during the war is not a "Kvartak" (Ukrainian comedy show (Ed.)) You need to learn this at last. It's a shame, I have nothing to tell you about your shame," Butusov said.