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The former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Bogdan, on the air of the program of the author of the founder of Internet publication GORDON, Dmitry Gordon, said that President Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Oman in January because he wanted to rest.
“What was it really? A man spent half his life abroad. It was physiologically painful for him to be here. Besides, you know, this [была] free profession. When you go where you want, you do what you want, you say what you want … And then the rules, rules, rules … He’s tired. I wanted to go to the sea. This is how I see it, “Bogdan said.
Commenting that Zelensky’s trip was compared to Ukraine’s fifth president Petro Poroshenko’s secret trip to the Maldives, Bogdan replied: “Look, there is no good solution. I shouldn’t have gone to Oman. Under no circumstance … “.
The former OPU chief also said that he insisted that a state plane fly to Oman for Zelensky.
“Yes, I insisted:“ Let’s send our state plane. And at least your return won’t be tragic. There are many reasons for the return of the president to the country on a Ukrainian state plane. This cannot be disputed in any way. “But it seems to me that we don’t miss a rake. Now if we fail a rake and with some peripheral vision we notice that ‘there are new ones there’, we will definitely go back and use them,” he said. …
On January 5, the Strana newspaper wrote that Zelensky had gone to Oman to rest. The Office of the President of Ukraine confirmed that the Ukrainian head of state was in Oman and said that “he and his family went there on a regular plane at their own expense. “In the next few days the head of state is scheduled to meet at the highest level,” it was reported. Before news of Zelensky’s vacation appeared in the media, his press service did not announce the head of state’s visit to Oman.
5January 6 at The GPO was informed that in Oman, Zelenskiy met with the country’s Foreign Minister, Yusuf bin Alyawi bin Abdullah, and with the Executive Chairman of the Oman State General Reserve Fund, Abdulsalam al-Murshidi. Judging from the photos released by the OPU, Zelensky was accompanied on the trip by Andriy Yermak, who was then an assistant to the president and now head of the OPU.
Zelensky interrupted visit in connection with the accident of a Ukraine International Airlines plane in Iran on January 8.
In February, the OPU admitted that the president’s trip to Oman was not of an official nature and was not paid for from the state budget. The Department of State Security reported that 74.3 thousand hryvnyas were allocated for a business trip to UGO employees who accompanied the president and his family to Oman. In April, the Office of the President was informed that his wife Elena had paid for the trip to Oman.
Zelenskiy has said that he did not want to use the state plane for the trip.
“I realized that as a decent and honest person I will not use a state plane to fly even to a meeting with the person who is currently in charge of Oman. And about our plans for the future, about the appointment of an ambassador , about investments, about the size of Oman’s investments in Ukraine and about our relationship, “says Zelensky.
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