Back
Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Former spokesperson for the president of Ukraine Yulia Mendel decided that she has full right to talk about “peace” in the European Parliament building at an event organized by the pro-Russian ultra-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
However, Mendel was not admitted to the European Parliament. Read more in an exclusive column for 24 Channel.
In the official announcement she was proudly presented as a spokesperson from Ukraine who would share “personal experience.” But what exactly is this experience?
All of the “experience” is media support and failed memoirs.
To be precise, Mendel was the president’s spokesperson a little over two years — from June 2019 to July 2021. That is long before Russia’s full-scale invasion. She has no experience participating in peace talks, military actions, or making strategic state decisions. Her entire work at the Office of the President boiled down to communications and media support.
After her dismissal she immediately tried to monetize that period and published the book “Each of Us Is the President.” However, the memoir turned out to be a complete failure: she was criticized for superficiality, exaggeration of her own role, manipulation, and disdain for the Revolution of Dignity. She even admits in a exposé article that she defended her dissertation, as she confessed, for a bribe of 200 dollars. So claiming that this person is deeply knowledgeable is certainly not true.
Radical turn and Kremlin’s method sheets.
For several years, nothing was heard about Yulia Mendel, but later her rhetoric radically changed. She gave a scandalous interview to American pro-Russian media analyst Tucker Carlson, accusing the Ukrainian authorities of knowingly dragging out the war to retain power and repeating Kremlin narratives about Istanbul.
Now she writes English-language posts in which she claims that Ukraine is to blame for Russia shelling our cities and causing a humanitarian catastrophe. By her logic, Moscow is starving peaceful residents with cold in retaliation to the Ukrainian strikes on targets deep inside Russia. She, of course, does not mention that Russia had been destroying civilian infrastructure long before we had long-range capabilities.
Moreover, with tears in her eyes on camera she addressed Putin in Russian with calls to “not allow Slavic-to-Slavic killings.” Meanwhile occupied Oleksandrivka lived for months on the edge of hunger without medicine and food due to a Russian blockade, and humanitarian corridors are shelled by hostile drones. And Putin somehow did not hear her tearful appeal.
Another “challenge” and a finale in the ash heap of history.
At the AfD event Mendel would have been in a “wonderful” company. Along with her, there was Swiss editor Roger Kappel, who gave a flattering interview to Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, and AfD co-chairman Tino Kräpel, who publicly stated that he “does not see a threat” from Russia to Germany. All while Solovyov for years on air promised to “destroy Berlin” and burn the German capital.
For some reason Yulia thinks she is a unique political figure valued in the West for intellect or expertise. But no, Yulya, you are just another rehearsed material used by pro-Russian radicals for their own image.
Just look at the fate of her “predecessors.” Where is Igor Girkin now, who posed as a liberator? Sitting on Russian bunks, forgotten by the custodians. Where are Tetiana Mantyan or all sorts of “state Ukrainians” for breaking into broadcasts of Skabeyeva? They have become useless props, with which Russians wipe their feet for pennies. The same fate awaits Mendel — her surname will very soon be written with a lowercase letter.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Її прізвище дуже скоро почнуть писати з маленької літери: Мендель не пустили до Європарламенту". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
