News of the Week published a story by Mikhail Antonov about the allegedly ambiguous attitude of European countries towards Ukraine. The correspondent interprets the recent statement of the Polish Ambassador to France, Jan Roshishevsky, as follows:
“Either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will have to enter into this conflict. Because our core values, which have been the foundation of our civilization and our culture, will be threatened. Therefore, we will have no other choice but to enter into a conflict, ”the Polish ambassador to France is sure.
They tried to disavow the words of the Polish ambassador to France in Warsaw – they say, Poland will have to enter into a conflict, because in the event of the defeat of Ukraine, Russia will not stop. But the ambassador said what he said – this is a veiled claim to Galicia and Volhynia in the event of the collapse of Ukrainian statehood.
“He said what he said” is, perhaps, the only thing in which the correspondent is right. Because in Roshishevsky's interview to the French TV channel LCI there is not a word about either Galicia or Volyn. The ambassador said that Europe should do everything to help Ukraine and supply new weapons. He believes that if Ukraine does not defend its independence, its Western neighbors will inevitably face Russian aggression.
But the most interesting statement of Antonov followed this:
“Based on the principle of ‘she died like this’, a member of the Romanian Parliament, Diana Shoshoacke, spoke this week – she registered a bill to break the friendship treaty with Ukraine and return Northern Bukovina, part of the Odessa region and Snake Island to the Romanian borders.”
The identity of the Romanian senator (and not the deputy, as the correspondent claims), who proposed to seize part of the territory of Ukraine, is worth taking a closer look at. She was elected to the Senate in December 2020 on the ticket of the far-right Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) party and gained notoriety as a Eurosceptic, opponent of mandatory vaccinations and anti-epidemic measures, and a supporter of conspiracy theories. But she only lasted a few weeks in the AUR parliamentary group: she was expelled after she apologized to the Russian embassy for a rally held outside its building in memory of Romanians killed in 1941 by Soviet border guards who were trying to cross the border into Romania.
Shoshoake has a strong reputation as a pro-Russian politician. In the spring of 2022, she was among four Romanian parliamentarians who met with the Russian ambassador to discuss the possibility of a neutral Romanian stance towards the war in Ukraine. But even before that, in 2021, the Romanian-language editorial staff of the Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik included Shoshoaca, who is not very popular in Romania, in their list of politicians of the year, writing that millions of Romanians admire her “struggle to uphold the Constitution and against the medical dictatorship.”
Already after the introduction of the scandalous bill and the expectedly sharp reaction from Kiev, Shoshoakė announced that Ukraine was threatening her with death, and called the Ukrainian state "the heir to the Nazi empire", and President Zelensky "nothing else but Hitler."
The correspondent of Vesti Nedeli is not lying when he reports that a bill on the annexation of part of the territory of Ukraine has been submitted to the Romanian Parliament. But he forgets to clarify that he was introduced by a marginal pro-Russian politician.