The adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, Mykhailo Podoliak, noted that on May 7, the aggressor country of the Russian Federation was not the "inauguration" of the illegitimate president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, but "the classic Russian coronation of another criminal leader".
Zelenskyy's Office advisor reacted to the "performance" in the Kremlin
As Mykhailo Podolyak emphasised, Vladimir Putin is not the president of Russia; he is a "classic ill-educated dictator."
[It was] not "inauguration." [It was] the classic Russian coronation of another camp criminal leader. [It was] not a free country. [It was] a full-fledged dictatorship with pronounced complexes of hatred, envy, and desire for someone else's blood. It was unwilling to meet modern times. However, there was an expressed intention to increase aggression and expansion and to scale wars in various formats.
Mykhailo Podolyak
Ukrainian President's Office advisor
Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stated that they see no reason to recognise Vladimir Putin as the democratically elected and legitimate president of Russia.
Such actions of the Russian Federation, despite warnings from authoritative international institutions, once again prove that its leadership does not recognise its responsibility and is not going to stop the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, emphasised MFA's statement.
Putin is no longer the legitimate president of Russia
What is essential to understand is that after the large-scale falsification of "elections" in Russia, the dictator lost his legitimacy as the president of this country.
Many of Kyiv's allies supported the position regarding Putin's illegitimacy, but some went directly to Moscow for this event, namely:
France
Hungary
Slovakia
Greece
Malta
Cyprus
Belgium was also on this list as of the evening of May 6. However, the country later announced that it would not send representatives to the Kremlin for ceremonial events.
The US and most EU countries will not attend the event. Independent observers and experts assess the elections in the Russian Federation as non-free and non-competitive.
