During a conversation with a journalist, Potap talked in Russian.
“Your wife, [украинская певица] Nastya Kamensky abandoned the Russian language in public space. You have no disagreement at home on this basis, quarrels? ”The host asked Potap.
“It would be cool if I had not been allowed home for what I speak with it in Russian. We have no disagreements at all. We have a multinational, multicultural family at all,” Potap answered. “In principle, there are no language problems in life if you ask someone in Ukraine. Well, there are so areas when someone infringed on the language. This is a political thing. And outside Ukraine they speak any language. “
According to Potop, “the main thing is that people understand each other.”
“And when they sit at the table, they eat borsch and raise the cup, it still becomes anyway,” he summed up.
In the same interview, Potap spoke about his departure from Ukraine during martial law.
“I have no feeling that I left my homeland and I have emigration,” Potap said.
According to the showman, living abroad, he did not lose touch with Ukraine.
“I am in full contact with my … yaw-and-blank culture of my own,” Potap said, moving into the Ukrainian language.
Context
Potap (Alexey Potapenko) – Honored Artist of Ukraine. Potap since the fall of 2023 lives abroad, mainly in Spain. He secretly left Ukraine in the fall of 2023 and officially did not say that he was returning.
In early February 2025, in an interview with Russian journalist Yuri Dudy Potap, he said that he had left the country without violating the laws.
