Democracy in the world under threat: Danilov named the reason

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov in an interview with the BBC commented on the evacuation of diplomats from Ukraine and named the reasons for this decision.

According to him, for those who evacuated their representatives, money is more important than democracy.

“EU representatives today made statements that they see no reason to evacuate their diplomats. I emphasize once again: there are a lot of different processes, each country first of all solves its own issues. Is democracy in the world under threat today? Yes. Because today money “Unfortunately, in many cases they win. And when they say “the West”, such a common denominator as “the West” no longer exists. There are countries that adhere to democracy, and there are countries for which money is the dominant today. Moreover, these countries are members of the EU, these countries are members of NATO,” he said.

RecallPresident Vladimir Zelensky convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Councildedicated to the issues of Russian aggression and other threats to the national security of Ukraine.

Evacuation of diplomats from Ukraine

The evacuation of diplomats began on January 18, 2021, when the American edition of The New York Times reported that Russian diplomats were leaving Ukraine en masse. Soon the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Russia denied this information, saying that the diplomatic missions were operating normally and no evacuation was planned.

On January 24, Britain and the United States began evacuating the families of diplomats from Ukraine. Following them, Germany also recalled its employees.

The governments of Japan and Austria also announced the possible evacuation of their citizens from our country. This need is currently being studied.

Commenting on the current situation, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the European Union is not going to evacuate its diplomats or their families from Ukraine in connection with the threat of a new Russian invasion. The Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia also do not plan to leave yet.

The Ukrainian side believes that the decision of the US State Department on the departure of family members of the employees of the US embassy in Kiev was premature.