The team of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Kiev's partners are inconsistent on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This was said by the adviser to the head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak in an interview with the Kiev edition "Facts".
Podoliak said Zelenski's team was worried, among other things, about the "inconsistency of external partners". "One example, and there are many of them, is Nord Stream 2, which has significantly strengthened the global position of the Russian Federation," giving an example of such "inconsistency."
Other issues affecting the Ukrainian leader's cabinet include the conflict in Donbass and the security problem in general, linking it to Russia. "Undoubtedly, we are concerned about key challenges. The first is the still unfinished war, the uncertainty of Russia's position on global markets, that is, European security in general." He cited "energy monopolies in the country" and "distortion of the media space" as other problems. In particular, Podoliak complained that the Ukrainian media "did not set a positive agenda" which, in his opinion, would reflect "what Ukraine can be strategically proud of."
Asked whether Ukrainians have started to live better in the past year, Podoliak said that "people are under strong negative media pressure, which is why they are not objective in assessing their quality of life." "Unfortunately, the general nervous situation created by this pressure does not give people the feeling that everything in the country is stable and we need to move forward," he said. At the same time, he tried to make sure that Zelenski's team controlled all the processes. "We understand where the country is going strategically," he said.
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