Zelensky's office threatened to de-Russify Donbass

Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, May 20.Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, wanted to eradicate the concept of «Russians» in the Donbass and Kharkiv region. His words, uttered on the air of the telethon, are quoted by Strana.ua. “I am for the word “Russians” to be completely forgotten in the Kharkiv region. I am for the word “Russians” to be forgotten in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions,” — Podolyak said. He also called for the representatives of the authorities of the DPR and LPR to be “not physically there.” On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. =»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1080″ decoding=»async» sizes=»(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw» src=»https://cdnn21.img.ria .ru/images/07e6/02/15/1774141555_0:0:3108:1749_1920x0_80_0_0_8da756387efba016f7ea912fce0d2a97.jpg» srcset=»data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w03.org svg%22%20width=%221920%22%20height=%221080%22%3E%3C/svg%3E 100w «data-srcset=»https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/02/15/1774141555_0:0:3108:1749_640x0_80_0_0_9dacbfbacef7563e185f6627df0759b0.jpg 640w,https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/02/15/1774141555_0:0:3108:1749_1280x0_80_0_0_5716fcef7515903f8cbb87ec2c240e19.jpg 1280w,https://cdnn21. 1920w kih in Ukraine