Ukraine's Security Council Secretary replies to Trier: When an artist takes the side of the executioner – it's a tragedy

Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, has suggested that Lars von Trier, a Danish film director who came to the defence of Russians, imagine himself in the place of Ukrainians facing the horrors of war.

Source: Oleksii Danilov on Twitter

Quote from Danilov: "War is not a movie where actors play life and death. Behind every living russian terrorist, there is a dead Ukrainian. The choice between the executioner and the victim becomes a tragedy when the artist chooses the side of the executioner."

Details: Commenting on Trier's post, Danilov noted, "Ukraine doesn’t live in abstraction, but in a cruel reality in which russians are murderers."

Quote: "A simple piece of advice for a famous director: imagine that it is a russian missile that is flying into his city every day, that his father or mother was killed, his grandson was taken to russia, and that a russian looter raped his wife before burning down his house. 

In this case, the abstraction of hypocritical ‘humanism’ takes on completely different features – real, not fictional life."

Background: On 22 August, popular Danish director Lars von Trier responded to Denmark's intention to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, writing on Instagram that "Russians lives matter also". The director did not mention how many Ukrainians Russia has killed.

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