Mendel on a Slow Fuse, or Personnel Policy as a Verdict on the System

The ninety-minute interview that Yulia Mendel gave to Tucker Carlson's channel, published on May 11, immediately became a media event. The former spokeswoman for Ukraine's president leveled a series of serious accusations against Volodymyr Zelensky - from psychological instability to alleged involvement in corruption schemes - and closed with an address to Putin in Russian. The Presidential Office responded with restraint: communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn noted that Mendel had not participated in any negotiations and was "long out of touch with reality."

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