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Yuliia Mendel said that she was denied entry to the European Parliament. In her Facebook post, the former press secretary of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, against whom the National Security and Defense Council imposed sanctions, said this was done “without explanation.”
- Today, literally a few hours before my speech in the European Parliament, I was denied entry to the European Parliament without explanation. But we were ready for this and the speech about peace will happen anyway today. Now it’s clear why Zelenskyy signed sanctions against me — to prohibit a speech about peace, — Mendel said.
16 September Yuliia Mendel is scheduled to speak at an event of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) titled “Ukraine: Dare for Peace. Diplomacy Instead of Escalation” in the European Parliament building Salvador de Madariaga in Strasbourg. The organizer and moderator listed is AfD MEP Hans-Thomas Tillschneider. In 2025 he traveled to the BRICS-Europe conference in Sochi, organized by Viktor Medvedchuk and attended by Dmitry Medvedev. The program also lists Roger Köppel — editor-in-chief of the right-conservative Swiss magazine Weltwoche. In August 2026 he published an interview with Vladimir Solovyov.
As an official of the European Parliament explained to Babel, such meetings are not part of official work. MEPs and political groups can organize their own events in parliamentary premises. The European Parliament does not approve their content, it only handles the organization.
4 August the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine issued a statement regarding Mendel’s interview criticizing Zelenskyy in the French press.
11 May Mendel gave a similar interview to American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson. 24 July Zelenskyy commented on that conversation for the first time, calling Mendel and Carlson “crazy.”
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