Zelensky ally trashes ex-Ukrainian president’s call to ‘seize Moscow’
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is a “useless blissful idiot” for claiming the conflict with Russia can end only after Kiev’s forces capture Moscow, Maksim Buzhansky, an MP from Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, has said.
In an interview with Apostrof TV on YouTube on Friday, Yushchenko rejected the idea of stopping the hostilities along the current contact line, insisting that Ukraine must go all the way “to Moscow” because “not a single person in the world, not a single nationality, not a single state can live peacefully… as long as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s regime exists.”
In a Telegram post on Saturday, Buzhansky responded that “over the years, we have started to forget just how much of a useless blissful idiot Viktor Yushchenko has always been.”
“Fortunately, he does not forget to remind us about this fact from time to time, like now, with his statement that we need to march towards Moscow,” he said.
Buzhansky added that it is telling that the former president made his call from the safety of a TV studio, and not from Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, or any other town where heavy fighting is currently underway.
It was during Yushchenko’s rule between 2005 and 2010 that Ukraine “began to make an irreversible turn in the wrong direction,” Buzhansky claimed.
Ukraine has been steadily losing ground to the Russian military since the start of the year almost everywhere along the front line. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said in late August that the army has liberated more than 3,500 square kilometers of territory and 149 settlements since March. The Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported more advances in various locations in September.
President Vladimir Putin reiterated earlier this month that “the constant hysteria” about Russia having aggressive plans towards other countries is “either a provocation or sheer incompetence.”
“Russia has never had, does not have, and never will have any desire to attack anyone,” Putin said. The Ukraine conflict was provoked by the West and Moscow is only defending itself, he added.
