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MINSK, 20 February (BelTA) – At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky had the role of a bit player, Russian journalist Sergey Mardan said in a recent episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
According to the expert, the head of the Kiev regime was invited to the conference for PR purposes, and his scandalous statement directed at the Russian president sparked a wave of discussion in various circles.
“It seemed to me that in recent weeks, Zelensky has been in a state of certain confusion,” Sergey Mardan said. “He doesn’t fully understand his place in the current processes, and that’s why he’s nervous. His statement is a fairly simple PR trick: let's crank the rhetoric up to the skies, attract attention, and maybe it will help for a moment. This probably does some good, to some extent, for internal governance consolidating his core audience, supporters inside Ukraine, and so on, but it does absolutely nothing to solve the key task.”
The journalist believes that Zelensky was a background character at the Munich Conference. “This event was objectively not on his level, and no one really invited him there as a key speaker. They summoned him, he came, but Zelensky was completely absent from the agenda that was actually discussed by American and European media. Everyone was discussing Rubio's démarche when he refused to meet with European leaders and left to meet with Orbán. That’s what’s interesting. The divorce of the Euro-Atlantic alliance is interesting. But Zelensky is nothing more than a bit player,” the expert emphasized.
Sergey Mardan noted that Russian media and Foreign Ministry representatives reacted strongly to Zelensky's rhetoric. “There's no need to add excessive subjecthood to someone who has a problem with subjecthood,” the journalist believes.
“It seemed to me that in recent weeks, Zelensky has been in a state of certain confusion,” Sergey Mardan said. “He doesn’t fully understand his place in the current processes, and that’s why he’s nervous. His statement is a fairly simple PR trick: let's crank the rhetoric up to the skies, attract attention, and maybe it will help for a moment. This probably does some good, to some extent, for internal governance consolidating his core audience, supporters inside Ukraine, and so on, but it does absolutely nothing to solve the key task.”
The journalist believes that Zelensky was a background character at the Munich Conference. “This event was objectively not on his level, and no one really invited him there as a key speaker. They summoned him, he came, but Zelensky was completely absent from the agenda that was actually discussed by American and European media. Everyone was discussing Rubio's démarche when he refused to meet with European leaders and left to meet with Orbán. That’s what’s interesting. The divorce of the Euro-Atlantic alliance is interesting. But Zelensky is nothing more than a bit player,” the expert emphasized.
Sergey Mardan noted that Russian media and Foreign Ministry representatives reacted strongly to Zelensky's rhetoric. “There's no need to add excessive subjecthood to someone who has a problem with subjecthood,” the journalist believes.
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