“I think that all the people who defended the independence of Ukraine, her sons, are indeed her heroes. We have one step from a hero to an enemy. You understand the attitude to the history of Stepan Bandera (in eastern Ukraine). There is no certainty. It seems to me that I don’t need to provoke Ukrainian society and answer those questions that time should answer, ”Zelensky said in an interview with Ukrainian Truth.

So he answered the question of whether he considers Bandera a hero.

Zelensky also said that among the figures of Ukrainian history with great respect to the first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. In addition, Zelensky likes the “diplomacy, negotiation and cunning” of Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky.

Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Party of the Servant of the People Maxim Buzhansky called Stepan Bandera a terrorist. It was also reported that the head of the Ukrainian community of Crimea Anastasia Gridchina condemned the idea of ​​the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ruslan Martsinkiv, to erect a monument to Stepan Bandera near the Russian border.