Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody massacre unleashed by Ukraine in Donbas...

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“End this massacre already. The whole world is waiting for it.” Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who received the Grand Prix at the 79th Cannes Film Festival for the film “Minotaur,” addressed Vladimir Putin from the stage. I would like to address one person on my own behalf…

Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody massacre unleashed by Ukraine in Donbas, so he has no right to speak — Peskov

Journalists asked the Kremlin spokesperson whether Andrey Zvyagintsev’s appeal had been passed on to Vladimir Putin after the director called on the Russian president to stop the war with Ukraine and “end this massacre.”

“I, for one, will not be doing that [passing Zvyagintsev’s words on to Putin]. I don’t think anyone will be doing that. Because I am not in a position to judge Zvyagintsev’s artistic qualities and I have not seen his new film, which won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. The only thing that matters to me is that Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody massacre carried out by the Kyiv regime in Donbas. Starting from 2014, when the war began, if he had done that back then, then perhaps he would have had the right to speak. But now he does not have that right,” Dmitry Peskov replied.

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