Ulyanov had in the Night on Saturday a tweet from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj on US arms deliveries with “No mercy for the Ukrainian people!” commented. Representative the Ukraine interpreted this as a call to genocide. Ulyanov himself felt misunderstood, but deleted the tweet.
Foreign Ministry: “Inhuman statements”
“We are outraged by the inhuman statements made by the Russian Permanent Representative and by his attempts to put into perspective what cannot be put into perspective,” commented a spokeswoman for the Austrian Foreign Ministry in a written statement on Saturday afternoon. While the ministry stands for freedom of expression, it is also free to “resolutely oppose such inflammatory statements,” the spokeswoman wrote, and announced that Ulyanov would be summoned to the foreign ministry for Sunday.
“Of the Russian Ambassador in Austria Ulyanov speaks of the need for a final solution the Ukrainian question’ and calls for genocide,” Selenskyj adviser Mikhail Podoljak had already reacted on Twitter on Saturday morning. At the same time, he complained that voices like “Not all Russians are Putin” or “Maybe we should activate Nord Stream 2” were loud in Europe It is time to understand that Russia is a fascist power structure with millions of people, wrote Podoliak.
“This genocidal language must not be tolerated,” he wrote the Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko on Twitter on Saturday afternoon. The entire diplomatic community in Vienna must boycott Ulyanov and Austria, as the host country, must declare him an undesirable person, he demanded. already had before the Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefantschuk, Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Federal President Alexander van the bark also called on Twitter to “immediately deport” the Russian diplomat.
Uliyanov sees misunderstanding
Ulyanov, the had already deleted his tweet written in English, felt misunderstood on Saturday. “Of course he doesn’t advocate genocide against the Ukrainians,” he said in a phone call the APA. “If you read what I’ve been writing on Twitter over the past few years, you won’t find anything despicable about the Ukrainian people,” he said the Diplomat. Perhaps he should have written a question mark instead of an exclamation mark in his publication, he admitted self-critically. “But I reacted emotionally to Zelenskyj’s message – again only weapons, no diplomacy,” he explained.
Of the Most recently, Ulyanov, who was also active as a Russian negotiator in the Vienna nuclear talks with Iran, is not the first Russian diplomat in Vienna, whose activities in social networks are causing discussions. Also the Konstantin Gavrilov, who is responsible for disarmament negotiations in Vienna, tweeted a parliamentary question in mid-August the NEOS to Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP). Of the senior Russian diplomat had earlier shared a Twitter message, in the a self-declared Stalinist called for the reintroduction of Stalinist state terror in Russia. However, Gavrilov’s personal attitude to this demand remained unclear.
Source: Nachrichten
