Ivan Svitailo spoke on Natalia Germanou's show about the tragic events that have been happening in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. The actor and dancer, who was born in Yalta, Crimea, to a Russian father and a Greek mother, sent his own message for peace.
"When I was born it was still Soviet territory. What we are living now is shocking, insane how we got here. Things didn't start now, they started much earlier. Eight years ago. And in those years we had 15,000 dead. There is a huge escalation leading to brutal violence. In conflicts it's never one person's fault. I am a product of this union of two peoples. I feel more than anyone else the division created between two sister nations. It is something that hurts you, freezes you. I have relatives in Kharkiv and we do not know what is happening. We have to be very careful what we hear and what we see. I do not think there is a healthy person who seeks escalation of the conflict and total division. I believe that the game is not just a war between Russia and Ukraine. The game has moved to a geopolitical chess game in which only Ukraine is not playing. The point is how it ended up here. Why people are now becoming aware of it, when the whole thing started in 2014. I think that if the Crimean border had not been restricted in 2014, we could have seen much worse things. We all need to be careful and not jump to conclusions and do everything we can to bring this escalation down. And not to arm each other's hand. And not to directly characterize wars either... The whole Middle East is on fire. I'm not the expert to analyze. We are ordinary people seeking peace and a ceasefire now."
Two days ago, Ivan Svitailo posted on his Instagram a photo of a couple in bed where the woman held a Russian passport and the man a Ukrainian one. In the middle was the baby, the fruit of their love.
Source: protothema.gr
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