He was asked to comment on the words of Russian oppositionist Alfred Koch, who said that Podolyak’s brother is a colonel of the KBG and lives in Moscow.

Podolyak responded to this by saying that he was not responsible for other adults.

“Just like (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander. -

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) Syrsky, and any other person born in the Soviet Union. My relatives never belonged to the KGB and FSB,” he said.

According to him, “you can have different views and not communicate” with relatives from Russia.

Previously, a friend of the family of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, told RT that the parents of a Ukrainian military man living in Russia were ashamed to look people in the eye when they found out what he was doing in Ukraine.