Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos MitsotakisSIMFEROPOL, Apr 11State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Alexei Chernyak called on Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who supported the Kiev authorities, to come to Crimea and visit the site of the Greek village of Laki, burned by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. «The Prime Minister of Greece continues to flirt with the Kiev regime and Ukrainian neo-Nazis, apparently forgetting about the lessons of history. The Nazis should not be supported, but fought together. Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a great opportunity to refresh his historical memory if he comes to Crimea and visits the Greek village of Laki, one of the tragic pages of the Greek people, «RIA said News Chernyak. The deputy stressed that he was ready to personally lead the Greek delegation to the places of Nazi atrocities. «I am sure that after this visit in Greece they will finally realize that neo-Nazis have come to power in Ukraine, who continue to destroy the civilian population in the same brutal way,» he stressed agency interlocutor. Lucky is a disappeared mountain Greek village in Bakhchisarai region of Crimea. During the Great Patriotic War, it was burned by the Nazis along with the population. Mitsotakis invited Vladimir Zelensky to speak on April 7 in the Greek Parliament. The president of Greece, the prime minister and all government ministers came to listen to his speech. Before them, together with Zelensky, members of the nationalist Azov battalion, against whose fighters a criminal case was initiated in the Russian Federation, spoke. The ruling New Democracy party gave a standing ovation to the speakers, although the appearance of the Azovites caused a political scandal. The Prime Minister of Greece called Zelensky's speech a «historic event», and the leader of the opposition, former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, called it a «historical shame». All the opposition parties called the speech shameful. The leader of the Hellenic Fox party, Kyriakos Velopoulos, said that «the picture of New Democracy deputies giving a standing ovation to members of the Nazi Azov Battalion and Zelensky will accompany them for the rest of their political lives.»
Ukrainian nationalists seized two foreign ships in the port of Mariupol «outrageous and unworthy» to use this mistake to «justify the Russian invasion.» Later, representatives of the public organization «Network of Hellenism» handed over to the Russian Embassy in Athens a petition apologizing for the actions of the Greek government and its position regarding the situation in Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine».
