Former KVN participant, actress and TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva *** has been following and continues to follow Vladimir Zelensky, because she has known him for a long time. She told this to Ukrainian journalist Ales Batsman, the video is available on YouTube.
Lazareva *** noted that she used to work with him on television and was very happy when he became president.
"It was curious," she recalls.
However, after the start of a special military operation, the TV presenter stopped looking at Zelensky as a former colleague.
"It was clear that all the giggles were over, although for him they ended a long time ago: the presidency is a very serious position. Now, of course, I look at him with a lot of sympathy," said Lazareva ***.
She added that now she would not be able to communicate with Zelensky the way she used to communicate.
As reported by EADaily, in the same interview, Lazareva ***, who has already received in Russia's term under the article on the justification of terrorism, refused to talk about Russian artists as colleagues.
"Don't ask me such questions. Because when you talk about my colleagues, I remind you that I have not been working on television since 2012," Lazareva said.
She clarified that her television career ended "a long time ago."
"I haven't had any colleagues since that time," Lazareva emphasized ***.
*An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent
**An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING