mo4ch:>Zelensky plagiarizes Poroshenko’s ‘imperial Russia’ line, then says it was planted | Mo4ch News

New Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already made the gaffe of a lifetime, tweeting a plagiarized part of speech by his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. He is now putting it down to ‘sabotage.’Zelensky has been in office for barely two weeks before taking off for Brussels to meet with European Council President Donald Tusk. On June June 5, his Twitter account quoted an excerpt of a statement he made during the meeting:Ukraine in the EU is the death of the Russian imperial project. Moreover, it is a heavy blow to Russian authoritarianism, a path toward democratic change in Russia and in the whole post-Soviet space.Soon, however, it became clear that the two sentences were entirely lifted from a speech by his predecessor. Poroshenko first posted the remarks on his Twitter account on May 18. He then repeated the line verbatim at his party’s convention on May 31.Called out on this, Zelensky’s office quickly issued a response, saying that the remarks were prepared by foreign ministr…