Did he call for genocide? |
Disgusting vulgarity by a Russian diplomat in Vienna
What a repulsive low blow!
While his country is systematically raging and murdering in Ukraine, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, is diligently providing propaganda support on Twitter.
Now he commented on a tweet by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the exclamation: “No mercy for the Ukrainian people!”
A call to genocide? This is how the Ukrainian parliament speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk put it. He reacted by demanding that Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Federal President Alexander van der Bellen immediately declare Ulyanov an undesirable person and expel him.
The Russian representative did not want his comment to be understood as a call to genocide. Rather, he had a different, but hardly better intention.
Namely, that it is Zelenskyj who has no mercy on the Ukrainian people because he is getting his country arms instead of sitting down at the negotiating table with the brutal Russian invaders, i.e. capitulating and handing over the Ukrainians to the Russians.
In the tweet, which the ambassador commented on so brutally, Zelenskyy thanked him for a $775 million military aid package from the United States.
Ulyanov’s comment has now been deleted – but the discussions regarding it continue. He sees himself as a victim of the “information war”, assuming that he was intentionally misunderstood – and continues to bully. Instead of apologizing, he wrote sarcastically to his critics several times: “I have to apologize. I’ve forgotten who I’m dealing with.”
One thing is clear: whatever he wants his sentence to mean – in view of the Russian massacre of the Ukrainian civilian population and the flat bombing of entire cities, his comment does not get any better.
And how does Austria react?
The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Minister Alexander Schallenberg, reacted to the taunting – and summoned the representative.
When asked, a spokeswoman for BILD said: “We are outraged by the inhuman statements made by the Russian Permanent Representative and by his attempts to put into perspective what cannot be put into perspective. We stand for freedom of expression. But we are also free to take a firm stand once morest such inflammatory statements. Therefore, the Russian Permanent Representative Mikhail Ulyanov was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for Sunday.”
