He said this on the air of the Ukrainian "Channel 5".
“Zelenskiy hates me, Zelenskiy is afraid of me, Zelenskiy commits crimes of illegal political persecution through a system of twisted justice.
It did not start today, it lasts almost three years ... This is a coup, because the fact that on the day of the FSB Zelensky made such a gift to Putin that he announced suspicion to me, the fifth president, who for five years fought back Russian aggression, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying. ...
Earlier, the former Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Valery Chaly, expressed the opinion that Russian President Vladimir Putin would allegedly "agree to a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky" if the Ukrainian leader "destroys the political career" of Petro Poroshenko.