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State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that Russia is ready to protect deputy Natalia Poklonskaya from attacks from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. This is how he reacted to the words of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who speculated about the possibilities of Kiev to prevent her from a new job.
Earlier it was reported that the ex-prosecutor of the Crimea may take the post of Russian ambassador to Cape Verde. At the same time, the Ukrainian diplomat, commenting on this news, said that if Poklonskaya retained Ukrainian citizenship, there would be an opportunity to “spoil her life”.
In his telegram channel, the chairman of the lower house of parliament criticized Kuleba’s statement. He noted that Poklonskaya is a citizen of Russia, and her rights and freedoms will be protected from all attacks. “And from such ministers, too,” Volodin added.
He also pointed out that Kuleba’s statement says that Kiev is “ready to apply measures inherent in totalitarian regimes” in relation to its citizens. “It is impossible to become a democratic state with such approaches and principles,” Volodin stressed. According to him, this is “the anti-people way of the dictatorial regime.”
Earlier, Kuleba was answered by Poklonskaya herself. She suggested that everyone should line up in alphabetical order and added that in general, the Ukrainian authorities have been doing nothing but “spoiling the life” of all Ukrainians since 2014.