“President Zelensky read all the speeches, and if he did not agree with the messages, then he changed them,” Mendel quoted Interfax-Ukraine as saying.

She noted that if Zelensky "agreed with this message, which he said yesterday, it only means positive for Ukraine: with a change of leadership, the position of Ukraine does not change."

“We remain on the European and Euro-Atlantic course and, of course, we recognize that Russia is the aggressor,” added Mendel.

Earlier, Tsegolko said that Zelensky “stole a paragraph” from Poroshenko’s speech during his speech in Brussels and said that it was “banal plagiarism”.