Military instructor and former soldier of the Israeli army, Zvi Arieli, said that the language in Ukraine is not an indicator of "one's own".

He said this in an interview with "Apostrophe".

Ariely noted that 70% of the ATU soldiers are Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine, while the SBU in the western part of the country caught provocateurs who talk at home in Ukrainian. He stressed that the special services of the Russian Federation are using the language issue to split the Ukrainian political nation. Zvi Arieli believes that Ukraine should popularize the Ukrainian language, but without "force measures".

He said that in the statements that Oleg Skrypka or Irina Farion allowed themselves, "it bears a real fascism".

"This kind of statements can afford either idiots or extreme right-wing scoundrels!", Ariely said..

He added that Ukraine should switch to the Ukrainian language, but recalled the example of the Baltic countries, where hard language measures squeezed out of state institutions those whose language was different from the indigenous language, and now the Russians there are much more pro-Russian than in the 1990s.