Director Andrei Konchalovsky, answering a question about the sanctions imposed on him by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, said that what is happening in Ukraine is sad.
“I have not formed any opinion on this subject except what I have said before: I am watching with compassion the tragic events in beloved Ukraine,” he told RIA Novosti.
The director stressed that, sad as they may be, there have been cases of blinding in history that large masses of people have “mercilessly had to pay for.”
Konchalovsky said he believed in the “inevitable enlightenment” of people and that peoples were “destined to be together”.
It was previously reported that Zelensky imposed personal sanctions on 198 people. “Moscow 24”. Film director Andrei Konchalovsky, TV presenter Angelina Vovk, former LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik and a number of Russian military reporters and journalists came under restrictions.