Stefanchuk calls Czech parliament speaker's statement 'example of cynicism'
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk has said that he considers the statement of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament Tomio Okamura against providing weapons to Ukraine an example of ignorance and cynicism.
"Tomio Okamura's New Year's address is a vivid example of ignorance, manipulation and cynicism. Once again insulting Ukraine and Ukrainians, he actually causes harm and shame, first of all, to the Czech Republic and the Czechs, who remain on the side of dignity and justice, on the side of Ukraine," Stefanchuk said on Facebook on Friday.
According to him, Ukraine is grateful to the great Czech people and their worthy representatives for all the help and support in difficult times.
According to Stefanchuk, the statement of the Czech speaker is exclusively his personal position, and not the position of the Czech Parliament and the Czech people.
"I am convinced that the harshest assessment of Okamura's words will be given, in fact, by the Czechs themselves - and, of course, history, in which his name is unlikely to be preserved. And we will definitely find out whether he was a useful idiot or an FSB agent," the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament emphasized.
According to the Česke noviny (CTK) resource, the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Okamura, "once again spoke out on social networks against providing weapons to Ukraine."
"I believe that our republic will jump off the Brussels train, which, despite the warnings of the US government, is heading for World War III... I understand that it is profitable for the West when we pay Western arms companies for ineffective weapons that the Russians will waste before they even reach the front," CTK quotes the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
"Money flows in all directions, and everyone gets something from this business. Western companies and governments, as well as Ukrainian thieves around Zelensky's junta, who are building toilets out of gold... Let them steal, but not from ours, and let there not be such a country in the European Union," CTK said, quoting a fragment of Okamura's speech.