Zelensky’s Press Secretary Returns From Exile With a Message for the Tyrant

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Why was Julia Mandel placed under sanctions after her interview with the host?

Tucker Carlson 0:04
So thank you for coming back. And I just wanna say I'm sorry, I knew there would be repercussions for your first interview that you did earlier this year with us, and apparently they were there were. Can you tell us what happened after that interview aired?
Yulia Mendel 0:19
Well, yes, um actually thank you for giving uh me the platform. First time and now, because uh right now Ukrainians are facing huge censorship everywhere, uh, thanks to Volodymyr Zelensky. And um, our interview for me was a trouble. I know that our after our interview, Zelensky ordered to have uh some kind of uh so-called linguistic expertise. Uh, and this is a corrupt practice that exists in the government of Ukraine that helps. Them prove something that they want to prove to execute their political persecution. So this linguistic expertise is still ongoing. However, um I'm already under sanctions. If this linguistic expertise uh is uh finished, uh I'm gonna face the treason charges that in Ukraine under martial law uh can be from 15 years of prison to life sentence.
Yulia Mendel 1:15
So uh this is absolutely crazy. But let me explain why I am under sanctions. I was invited to have a speech in the European Parliament by the Alternative for Germany, AfD, one of the the most actually popular party in Germany. And this was supposed to be a speech about uh the necessity of peace uh for Ukraine. Uh we announced this speech um I think approximately September tenth, and on the thirteenth of September, Zelensky um introduced imposed sanctions on me. Um, so what happened next was that when I arrived to the European Parliament on September 16th, when my speech needed to take place, I was buried from entering the European Parliament. And we were told they didn't know the reason, but that uh personally, uh Roberta Mezzola, who is the head of the European Parliament, uh, banned me from entering.
Yulia Mendel 2:10
They also tried to ban um the video transfer. Transmission and they did not allow to translate my speech into German and French. Thanks to FD. Um, we managed somehow technically to have video transmission, and I even answered the questions. Uh, however, this shows a very huge problem because I had A lot of questions from Western journalists. Why Ukrainians don't speak about the necessity of peace? One journalist even told me that he had a feeling that no one in Ukraine except of Julia Mandel wanted peace. But I see this growing tendency, and I'm sitting here absolutely sure that the majority of Ukrainians want peace as soon as possible, because I get enormous support from everywhere. But nobody sees it.
Yulia Mendel 2:57
is that and I thought that it was the problem, you know, Ukrainians didn't um have enough people to talk, uh enough context, uh, enough, you know, experience or skills to reach the bigger platforms, but it happens that there is just a censorship, a huge censorship. Nobody wants to listen to Ukrainians who call for peace. And this is um to be frank, this is so Heartbreaking and so disappointing because Ukraine today is looking at European Union. The place and the place of democracy of freedom of speech, but in fact. It is very far from the reality. Um yeah, so um I'm under sanctions. What it means? Uh it means that uh I cannot make any financial um uh operations in Ukraine, no buying selling properties, cars, nothing.
Yulia Mendel 3:51
My financial accounts are banned, my business accounts are uh cancelled, banned, I cannot have any bank accounts today. But uh there is another thing that uh Zelensky introduced in the sanctions. My uh three accounts and social media, it is Facebook, Instagram, and X. And he um requested that these accounts are banned from Ukrainian audience, from the people who live in Ukraine. And if it's possible, I would really love to appeal to address today to the people who work in Meta Company and in X, not asking only for myself. But asking for all Ukrainians who are on a systematic basis are banned from talking to the Ukrainians in Ukraine. This happens all the time. I know the bloggers who repeatedly restart their pages because they call for peace.
Yulia Mendel 4:44
And then the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine requests to ban the accounts from Ukrainians.

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