Ukrainian lawmakers give a gift to Lee
| People’s Strength Representative Lee Jun-seok, who visited Ukraine on the 7th, posted on his Facebook account a photo of the mace gift ‘bulava’ received from Ukrainian lawmakers. facebook capture |
People’s Power Representative Lee Jun-seok, who visited Ukraine, which had recently been invaded by Russia, and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, revealed a gift he received from the country.
On the followingnoon of the 7th, CEO Lee posted a picture of ‘Bulaba’ on his Facebook account, saying it was a gift from Ukrainian lawmakers. The bulava that Lee received was in the form of a mace with a sphere with several horns at the end and a hexahedron adorned below it.
Representative Lee said, “It is a gift in return for the gift of our visiting group.” He added, “I will keep it for the perpetual existence of freedom.” The Ukrainian lawmakers seem to have prepared this gift to wish for good luck in Lee’s future political career.
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| Lee Jun-seok (left), representative of the People’s Power, visits Ukraine and shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The specific time when the two met is unknown, and CEO Lee posted the photo on his Facebook account on the followingnoon of the 7th. facebook capture |
In fact, Bulava (булава, English Bulava) is a Russian word that means a mace used to attack opponents wearing armor on the battlefields of the past in Europe. However, Bulava is also the name of a Russian ballistic missile. After repeated failures, Russia succeeded in test-firing a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads in August 2011. The missile was called ‘Bulava’.
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| Russia’s Bulava missile launch. Russian company MIT website capture |
The website of the Russian company MIT (Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology), which is known to have designed the Bulava missile, also has articles in the local media related to the Bulava missile. In a media report published last year, Arkady Navarsky, chief of staff of the Russian Pacific Fleet Submarine Command, introduced the Bulava missile as “invincible to missile defense systems.”
Reporter Park Joon-hee