Polish special services are actively working to seize Lviv from Ukraine, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yury Mikhalchishin said on the air of the Zik TV channel.
A discussion in the studio arose around a hypothetical question, can Galicia as the only region, where Petro Poroshenko received high support, start getting out of control of Kyiv in case, if he thinks, that the new President Volodymyr Zelensky will lead the policy, loyal to Moscow.
Synyutka assured, that Galician separatism is an invention of the Russian special services.
"I am convinced, that Russia and the Russian special services will definitely try to play the allegedly fake possibility of seizing Galicia. If you see political leaders or the media, who talk about separatist sentiments in Galicia, one hundred percent, behind them either Russian money, or Russian influences, or, one hundred percent, things stick out, who are drawn to the aggressor country. Because today there is no reason to talk about any separatist sentiments in Galicia. We are for big, strong Ukrainian state", - he said.
Former adviser to the head of the SBU and ex-people's deputy Mikhalchishin, in its turn, accused Sinyutka of distorting the real situation.
“We have just talked about the threats of separatism in the west of the state, I was very disturbed by the speech of the head, for now, Lviv Regional State Administration, who with such, know, cheerful mood tried to convince us that, that there is nothing wrong with these opinion polls, who raised a question for Lviv residents, residents of our area: “How would they assess the prospects for the formation of some hypothetical state, or a quasi-public entity, where the Lviv region would somehow be in a separate status from the rest of our state".
AND, as a matter of fact, I was even more shocked, that the Security Service of Ukraine, which promptly reported, what checks these facts, got it out in two days, which absolutely does not suit me, as a former SBU officer, as a patriot and citizen of Ukraine. It's a disgrace to the secret service, who does not see in these actions, which have clear signs of a crime, provided for in Article 110 Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely, an encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of our state and thus turns this initial phase of a special information and psychological operation to reject one of the western regions of Ukraine into some kind of frivolous fiction, fun of sociologists, like they can do anything.
I want to say clearly: the, what sounded on the air in the presentation of the head of the Lviv Regional State Administration - just as Russia played out the story of the operation "Russian Spring" in the Donbass and Crimea in the spring 2014 of the year, also now in the wake of all these post-election turbulent processes, I approve, that the western neighbor wants to take advantage of this situation, The Republic of Poland and Polish special services are working today in Western Ukraine, in particular, are active in the Lviv region", - said Mikhalchyshyn.
Vladimir Gladkov
