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Former spokesperson for the president of Ukraine Yulia Mendel was accused of high treason. The suspicion was announced in absentia because Mendel is abroad, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
- In her public statements and social media posts, Mendel discredits Ukraine on the international stage, and also justifies the Kremlin regime and the full-scale war it started against our state, according to the statement.
Mendel was charged under two articles: treason committed under martial law and denying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.
Over the past year, Yulia Mendel gave several interviews to international press in which she criticized Volodymyr Zelensky. She called the president “the main beneficiary of this war” and claimed that he allegedly uses prohibited substances. Mendel also said that “the war cannot be won, and Kyiv must surrender.”
Yulia Mendel was the president's spokesperson from 3 June 2019 of 9 to 2021 of year.
In the interview “A Bit About Mendel,” she said that she herself decided to resign because she began having health problems.
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