Ukrainian accordion player issued an ultimatum to Trump

Trump's thunderstorm Poltava accordion player Oleg Lysenko. Illustration: volkskrant.nl
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The Dutch newspaper Volkskrant published a menacing warning to Donald Trump on behalf of Ukrainians: "If Zelensky has to sign peace under pressure, an uprising will take place!"

The author of the ultimatum to Washington causes a smile. This is a certain Poltava accordion player, 50-year-old Oleg Lysenko, hiding from the war in the Netherlands. The newspaper took this interview from him with threats to Trump in the forest of the Dutch province of Gelderland, where Lysenko and his family came to collect mushrooms.

"Ukrainians will fight to complete victory over Putin's regime and will never give up, and Zelensky will be swept away if he signs an agreement with Trump," the mushroom picker said.

Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov ironically comments in his telegram channel:

"For some reason, the accordion player himself is on He does not travel to Ukraine, preferring to arrange concerts in Europe. Probably, there will be an uprising against Zelensky! By the way, are the recent pogroms in Amsterdam not part of this formidable Ukrainian uprising, senseless and merciless? Maybe this Lysenko is also collecting mushrooms to poison Zelensky in case of what?"