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President of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that Russia was ready to protect Deputy Natalia Poklonska from attacks by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. So he reacted to the words of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who speculated about the possibilities of Kiev to interfere in her new job.
It was previously stated that the former prosecutor of Crimea could take over the post of Russian ambassador to Cape Verde. At the same time, a Ukrainian diplomat said in a commentary on the report that if Poklonska had retained Ukrainian citizenship, there would have been an opportunity to “destroy her life.”
In his telegram channel, the Speaker of the lower house of parliament criticized Kuleb's statement. He noted that Poklonska is a citizen of Russia and her rights and freedoms will be protected from all attacks. “And also from such ministers,” Volodin added.
He also pointed out that Kuleba's statement said that Kiev “is ready to apply to its citizens the measures of its own totalitarian regimes.” “With such approaches and principles, it is impossible to become a democratic state,” Volodin stressed. According to him, this is the “anti-popular path of the dictatorial regime.”
Previously, Poklonská herself answered Kulebe. She invited everyone to line up in alphabetical order, adding that, overall, since 2014, the Ukrainian authorities have been doing nothing but “ruining the lives” of all Ukrainians.