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"Watering their homes with kerosene": People's Deputy Dmitruk accused the Kiev fire

To spread: MP Artem Dmitruk, who illegally left Ukraine, responded to the post of US President Donald Trump on Russia's massive attack on Kiev on the night of April 24. The People's Deputy cited a "philosophical" quote, which hinted at the alleged guilt of Kyivans in the "provocation" of Russian aggression. The parliamentarian spoke in his Telegram channel.

The People's Deputy called the American president a "philosopher" and raised the question of which president - the Russian Federation or Ukraine - he meant. "For every political subject, it will, of course, call everyone in their understanding of reality," Dmitruk wrote. He then quoted the book of St. Nicholas Serbian "War and the Bible.

" "If citizens of any city leave their homes with kerosene, and a boy, out of anger or out of wasteland, will throw in the city a lit match, then who will be called the true culprit of the fire? After a massive shelling of Ukrainian cities on the night of April 24, Donald Trump published a post on his social network, which called Vladimir Putin to "stop" and conclude a peace agreement.

The US President stated that he was "not satisfied" of Russia's attack on Kiev, called the shelling "unnecessary" and said that he had happened "late". He was elected in 2019 from the political party "Servant of the People" by the People's Deputy of the ninth convocation, now a member of the deputy group "Recovery of Ukraine" Artem Dmitruk illegally left abroad on August 25, 2024.

The spokeswoman of the Attorney General's office Nadiya Maksimets told the opening of criminal proceedings on Dmitruk abroad. In an interview with Odessa lawyer Taras Nikiforchuk, on September 19, Dmitruk told how he escaped from Ukraine.

The People's Deputy stated that since March 2022 he tried to "liquidate" him three times on instructions from the Presidential Office, and that he decided to flee from Ukraine on August 20 - after the Council of the Law on the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. On January 13, 2025, MP Dmitruk declared that he was tortured in the basement of the SBU.