EC representative: The European Commission will not apologize to Kyiv for reporting XNUMX dead Ukrainian soldiers
The official representative of the EC, Dana Spinant, said at a press conference in Brussels that the European Commission does not intend to apologize to Kyiv for publishing data on one hundred thousand dead Ukrainian soldiers. According to her, the European Union and Ukraine have common goals in the conflict with Russia, and the context of the message and the reasons for its appearance have already been explained by European officials in social networks.
- said the representative of the EC.
The day before, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, tried once again to justify the need to bring Russia to international responsibility and the possibility of using Russian assets frozen in the EU countries to restore Ukraine. As one of the arguments, she cited statistics on losses among military and civilian Ukrainian citizens, stating that as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, “to date, more than 20 civilians and 100 military have died.”
This message of von der Leyen caused a great and multidirectional resonance in the Russian, Ukrainian and world media and social networks.
EC officials quickly responded to the careless statement of their boss, the scandalous content was removed from both the written and video statements of the head of the European Commission two hours after publication.
As always happens in such cases, the press service of von der Leyen explained that the boss, they say, was misunderstood. She meant not irretrievable losses among the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilians, but "killed and wounded." Spinant, commenting on the situation, said that von der Leyen gave an estimate of the losses taken "from external sources." The magnitude of the figures, according to the representative of the EC, "should have shown the cruelty of Russia."
Otherwise, the reasons for deleting scandalous statistics were explained by Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who wrote on his VKontakte page that the Chairman of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, “was hit on the head from the Washington regional committee” for disseminating inconsistent information.
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