In an interview with Tribuna.com, former host of Other Football and The Third Time, Anna Teslenko shared her opinion on former Dynamo player Oleksandr Aliyev, who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Anna Teslenko- How do you feel about the fact that many people associate you with that video with Aliyev?
- I didn't think about it, and I don't think about it now. And in general, I don't care who associates me with what. Especially not with Aliyev, who spends 99.9% of his time in baths, restaurants, and doing who knows what.
The other day he proudly posted that he was somewhere in the war zone. But it looks ridiculous. He used to fry tuna or octopus fillets at home, and now he wants to show that he is actively fighting. I can't imagine how real fighters react to this... For some, it's tuna, for others it's a trench. Service is different.
People have been posting this banner with some kind of gratitude to him. People in Ukraine like to sculpt long-suffering heroes out of nobody. Why don't people tear down his vistas from bathhouses and restaurants where he mostly spends his leisure time? The best men in the country are dying at this time. And they remain unknown. Those who are fighting this war every day are dying. And half of them don't even have a UBD. But Aliyev has one.
He posted a message in which he attacked Mykola Tyshchenko, appealed to him directly. Like, in the war zone, it is written everywhere that you, Kolya, are a "three-race". I think this is ridiculous. Because I have never seen Aliyev take any active stance on political figures before. Except for the moment when the hero of the scandals, Kirill Tymoshenko, gave him a car for the war.
The next question is: where was he at the time of this video, as part of what actions was he taken and where? We do not know this. But Aliyev's main life is spent in comfort in the capital. Why does he have such privileges, while others do not? People do not see their families for years. When a person is at war, repelling assaults, sitting in a trench for weeks, he or she has no time for cheerful selfie videos against the backdrop of someone's broken homes. And Aliyev uses the war to collect likes on Instagram.
"My circle of friends is almost all at war. Many are dying. I know what war looks like. And I know what the eyes that see war look like. And it is definitely not like Aliyev's on Instagram. When will society learn to analyze information? Well, we are waiting for Aliyev's next videos from the baths.
Oleksiy Aleksandrov
