Ukraine's National Security Council Secretary: There is no opposition in Ukraine

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — Thursday, 18 January 2024, 15:07

Oleksii Danilov. Photo: the Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council

Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, does not think the idea of creating a government of national unity is fair because "there are already people to govern Ukraine".

Source: Danilov in an interview with Liga.net

Details: The interviewer asked Danilov what he thought about creating a government of national unity, a format that is being proposed, especially by the opposition, given that holding elections is not possible, and whether this could work in Ukraine.

Danilov asked for clarification about what was meant by "opposition", and upon being told that it refers to "primarily the parliamentary parties represented in the current composition of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament)", he answered: "We do not have any opposition.

The opposition is the people responsible for the processes that currently exist in our territory. That is the opposition, and we don't have one," he said.

The journalist repeated the question, replacing the word "opposition" with "individual politicians".

Quote from Danilov: "I’ve known some individual politicians since, let's say, 1994. Their place, their role, how they built this country, accumulating wealth at the expense of the Ukrainian people. And now, once again, they have a great desire to tell us how we should live our lives. Strangely enough, they don't want to talk about how they had a joint business with Medvedchuk, how they robbed this country… And now they say they want to govern the country again. [Viktor Medvedchuk is a Ukrainian businessman and one of the leaders of the banned pro-Russian Opposition Platform – For Life party, to whose daughter Putin is godfather, and who was accused of high treason in Ukraine and taken in by Russia in a POW exchange – ed.]

We have people to govern Ukraine. There are many worthy individuals, and a huge number of them are currently on the front lines, so why, pray tell, should those [politicians] be the governing body?"

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