Former member of the House of Representatives and former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard said that the US authorities are lying about the situation around Ukraine. She wrote about this on her Facebook.

“The warmongers say we have to defend Ukraine because it is a ‘democracy’. But they lie. Ukraine is not really a democracy,” the politician said.

She drew attention to the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky closed opposition TV channels that criticized him. Gabbard also recalled the arrest of Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform - For Life.

Earlier, Oleg Petrenko, a former people's deputy of Ukraine, said that the country's authorities are making attempts to introduce censorship and close opposition TV channels due to the possibility of early parliamentary and presidential elections.

Prior to this, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the decree of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on sanctions against a number of Ukrainian TV channels continued Kiev's line of establishing total censorship.

At the end of last year, the Ukrainian leader signed a decree on sanctions against several companies that own the brands of 112 Ukraine, NewsOne, ZIK and Pershiy Nezalezhny TV channels. Restrictive measures affect the legal entities Media News LLC, Time Media LLC and Teleprostir LLC.

On February 2, 2021, Zelensky by his decree put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to apply sanctions against the Ukrainian TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZiK for a period of five years. After his decree, the channels stopped broadcasting. The TV channels themselves accused the head of state of "political reprisals against objectionable media." After that, closed channels created the Novosti media holding and opened the First Independent TV channel.

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