According to TASS, he said this on the radio station Radio Capital.

“I have always believed that it is inappropriate to fit Zelensky and the great tragedy of his people into the context of popular music and entertainment,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.

At the end of January, it became known that more than 30 thousand people signed a petition in Italy against the speech of the President of Ukraine.

Later it became known that Zelensky would not make an appeal at a music festival in San Remo, Italy, but he would send the text of the appeal.