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Former Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov reacted to a statement by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on the sixth anniversary of the tragic events in Odessa on May 2. The head of state asked the question: “Who is guilty?”
Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky may doubt who started the war in the Donbass. This was announced on May 2 on Facebook by the Ukrainian director, former political prisoner Oleg Sentsov.
“If the head of state needs to clarify who is to blame for the May 2 tragedy, then he will soon have doubts about who killed the Hundred Celestials and started the war in the Donbass,” he wrote.
Before that, Zelensky said on Facebook that “today in our society there are a series of painful questions that require honest answers.”
“Who is to blame for the tragedy of May 2, 2014?” – one of them, “emphasized the head of state.
On May 2, 2014 in Odessa there were massive clashes between patriotic citizens and pro-Russian activists. As a result of the conflict and the subsequent fire in the Chamber of Trade Unions, 48 people died, more than 200 were injured. The events in Odessa were actively used by Russian propaganda to intensify anti-Ukrainian sentiments.
Police authorities opened nearly 10 criminal proceedings.
The report of the UN monitoring mission on human rights in Ukraine, published in 2019, says that both parties to the conflict and the local structures of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry are to blame for the escalation of violence in Odessa; The investigation of the facts was selective and biased.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is taking place between the Ukrainian armed forces, on the one hand, and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants, who control part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
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