MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian Comedian Vladimir Zelensky marked a local comedy TV show “Vecherny kvartal” (“Evening quarter”) with a scandalous sketch that might allegedly touch upon the Malaysian airliner accident. A video featuring his performance has been uploaded on YouTube.
Zelensky depicted a situation when he had supposedly written a letter to his relatives in Russia and warned them not to “take planes to visit us – it’s dangerous.” This might probably refer to the MH17 crash in the Donetsk region on July 17, which claimed 298 victims.
“The safest way is to go by white KamAZes (Russian trucks) which run regularly and without delay,” he said referring to Russian humanitarian convoys sent to the Luhansk and Donetsk Regions.
Also, showing the way his character did morning exercises, Zelensky jokingly imitated the Nazi salute and asked his “relatives” to send him a copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”.
Previously, Zelensky had already flared up a scandal due to a joke regarding Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. On his TV show, Zelensky had commented on a picture of Kadyrov crying: “It is the Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov’s reaction to the demolition of a Lenin monument in Kharkiv.” In reality, the video was shot in 2012 after a prayer and Zelensky was forced to submit a formal apology for mocking religious beliefs.
