{"id":1392276,"date":"2026-05-12T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/it-stinks-of-laptya-will-mendels-scandalous-interview-affect-aid-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:07:05","slug":"it-stinks-of-laptya-will-mendels-scandalous-interview-affect-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/it-stinks-of-laptya-will-mendels-scandalous-interview-affect-aid-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Stinks of Laptya&#8221;: Will Mendel&#8217;s Scandalous Interview Affect Aid to Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DmytroVovnianko\/posts\/pfbid02cXo6X4FL1V4nZV2oqPtmC5cPT9UNrYVdaWc4BPTMeiHEn7xCHSUkhpYRibiSYGVil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <strong>The morning didn&#8217;t start with coffee. The morning started with a new scandalous interview with Mendel. And there&#8217;s a full set.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Because Zelensky is emotionally unstable, often hysterical, and believes that every person is disposable.<br \/> That Zelensky has no empathy &#8211; he is playing it.<br \/> That Zelensky is cracking down on critics of the government and that the situation in Ukraine resembles the movie &#8220;How to Become a Tyrant.&#8221;<br \/> That Zelensky uses drugs.<br \/> That Zelensky is deliberately prolonging the war in order to stay in power and get more money.<br \/> That Zelensky repeatedly told her that &#8220;Ukraine is not ready for democracy&#8221; and that &#8220;dictatorship is order.&#8221;<br \/> That Zelensky promised Putin in 2019 that Ukraine would never join NATO.<br \/> And finally, during the negotiations in Istanbul, Zelensky was personally ready to give Donbas to Moscow.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/denazification-with-our-own-hands-how-the-authorities-in-ukraine-contribute-to-ethnocide\/\">Self-Inflicted \u201cDenazification\u201d: How Ukraine\u2019s Elite Enables Ethnocide<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Of course, Zelensky&#8217;s Office has already stated that Mendel lied about everything and that she is generally inadequate. Inadequate? And how did she become Zelensky&#8217;s press secretary then? Was Mendel adequate, and why did she attack journalists who asked Zelensky uncomfortable questions? It seems that at that time the OPU considered Mendel to be quite adequate.<\/p>\n<p> But that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re talking about. Yes, Mendel can lie for PR, she&#8217;s already made statements about Yermak and black magic (although who knows what they&#8217;re doing there, comedians?)<\/p>\n<p> What was most impressive to me was WHO Mendel interviewed.<\/p>\n<p> Mendel told all this in an interview with Tucker Carlson \u2013 the same guy who interviewed Putin and makes no secret of his sympathy for Putin. What&#8217;s more, Mendel even addressed Putin in Russian during the interview.<\/p>\n<p> What did this remind me of? It reminded me of deputies of various levels from the &#8220;Servant of the People&#8221; party who ran to serve the occupiers. And there are enough of them. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised now if the former press secretary gives an interview to Solovyov or Skabeeva.<\/p>\n<p> Once again, Zelensky&#8217;s inner circle reeked of scum.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/what-s-the-difference-as-a-formula-for-unfreedom-have-ukrainians-finally-realized-the-difference\/\">What\u2019s the Difference?\u2019: A Convenient Shortcut to Unfreedom<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> The sad reality is that Mendel Carlson&#8217;s interview will be heard in Europe and the US. For Putinites there, this interview is a gift of fate. There, they will perceive it as an interview with a former employee of Zelensky, who was admitted to the holy grail of information policy and communication with the press. Abroad, few people are interested in why an &#8220;inadequate lady&#8221; turned out to be Zelensky&#8217;s press secretary.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s not hard to guess how the interview with Zelensky&#8217;s former press secretary will affect aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> But she is the same \u2013 you will notice! That&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p> But let me remind you. It is the propagandists of the current government who regularly reproach Petro Poroshenko with former supporters. And so. It is the fans of ZE of all calibers who regularly quote lies about Poroshenko authored by the traitor Derkach, accused of treason by Dubinsky, Moscow cronies Portnov and Shariy, etc. The fact that such statements smell like lapti from a kilometer away, ZE fans don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p> And the West doesn&#8217;t care about all this. We listen to interviews with former ministers, government officials, and press secretaries there, don&#8217;t we? That&#8217;s it. We see less.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page The morning didn&#8217;t start with coffee. The morning started with a new scandalous interview with Mendel. And there&#8217;s a full set. Because Zelensky is emotionally unstable, often hysterical, and believes that every person is disposable. That Zelensky has no empathy &#8211; he is playing it. That Zelensky is cracking down on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1392271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1392276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}