Your Excellency,, if your visit were to take place under the conditions envisaged today, it is not out of the question that local Ukrainian associations would have to dissociate themselves from it regarding the public as well as the authorities of the Metropole and the General Council, in order to preserve the image and the interests of Ukraine and the local Ukrainian community. It is doubtful that this will be enough to contain the exasperation of activists and volunteers, shocked by what they see as a ‘maskirovka’. And yet, at a time when your country needs to mobilise all forces to repel the Russian genocidal invasion, we must avoid any bone of contention, as your enemy’s propaganda likes to sow among us.
