The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, offered advice to Danish director Lars von Trier in response to his slogan about the importance of the lives of Russian occupiers.
In a tweet, the official urged Trier to imagine a situation where his mother, father, wife, other close relatives, or hometown were mutilated, raped, or killed by another Russian missile or Russian soldier.
"In such a case, the abstraction of hypocritical 'humanism' takes on completely different traits - real, not imagined life," Danilov pointed out.
He reminded that real war is not about cinema, where actors merely pretend to be hurt, playing with life and death. Currently, every living occupier is a living murderer of Ukrainians, not a cinematic "abstraction." Danilov emphasized that one must not stand on the side of the "executioner" in such matters.
"The choice between the executioner and the victim becomes a tragedy when an artist chooses the executioner's side. Ukraine lives not in abstraction but in a harsh reality, where Russians are killers," the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council stated.
