Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have denounced the declaration by Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, that he is prepared to recognize the Russian seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea as “shameful” and a demonstration that he is “a dangerous marginal.”
Trump’s “shameful declaration,” Avakov said on Facebook, shows that Trump is “dangerous not only for Ukraine but also for the US.” No one who is prepared to recognize Putin’s aggression can be “a guarantor of democratic freedoms in the US and the world.”
Yatsenyuk was even blunter in his Facebook assessment of Trump’s comments during his interview on foreign policy.
The former prime minister said:
The Republican candidate’s statement “can hardly be called ignorance. It is a breach of moral and civilized principles,” Yatsenyuk wrote.
“The United States is the leader of the free world. Without [its] leadership and the alliance, the free world will be destroyed by the likes of Putin, Le Pen, Assad, Kim Jong Un and other dictators, demagogues and populists.”
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