“Nothing has changed for me.

I am still Russian.

I love Russian culture.

If I love a country, it is always for its culture,” he said in an interview with the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine.

Depardieu added that he prefers to avoid talking about the conflict over Ukraine, as "no one can say anything really reasonable about this."

Earlier it became known that Depardieu was closing his production center "PTS ZhD" in Russia due to downtime.

It is specified that this decision is not connected with the current situation in Ukraine.