Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov MINSK, Apr 2Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov does not consider celebrities who were afraid or did not understand the events in Ukraine to be enemies of the state. He stated this on the air of the channel «Belarus 1». «Sobchak, Urgant, Todorenko — they are not enemies of the state … We have people who got scared, that's when it all started — they got scared. Some of them left, said, that I'm going on a long vacation, someone else something. And everyone acted differently, but there are those who got scared and who didn't understand. And they are not enemies of the state,» he said.
«There are no Nazis in Ukraine»: Russia and the West know and remember different things about NazismHowever, this does not apply to everyone.»Yes, there are those people who not only did not understand, were not just scared, but who began to blame the authorities, who began to attack our military heroes. These are the enemies of the state, and we will fight them,» he said. Peskov also stressed that they will never again have access to state funding, in particular, to state grants, filming in films for which funds are allocated from the budget, roles in theaters. On February 24, Russian units launched a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and by March 25 they had completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main task of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
