OREANDA-NEWS. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the deputy of Russian State Duma and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), wrote on his page in Twitter that Russia will have to “preventively destroy” Ukraine if it does not stop being a “warmonger”.

In this way, the politician commented on the situation surrounding the case of the impeachment of President of the United States of America Donald Trump, initiated after a telephone conversation between him and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Trump is already angry with the accusations connected with Ukraine. Nowadays, Kiev is like Berlin in 1933, it is the same warmonger,” Zhirinovsky wrote. He also stated that “Kiev has gone crazy and is infecting America” ​​and that Russia “cannot tolerate such a policy.”

In January, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine accused the LDPR leader of infringement of territorial integrity. A criminal case was opened on the fact of broadcasting of one of the Russian TV channels in 2014, in which Zhirinovsky “made public calls for accession of the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the south-eastern regions of Ukraine.” The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine also noted that Russian politician called on residents of Crimean cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol to take action “for the aim of illegally changing the borders” of the country.

In September 2018, Kiev authorities began an investigation of a case in absentia, they accused Zhirinovsky of raising funds for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.