Zelensky's former press secretary Yulia Mandel was accused in absentia of treason - SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office because of her public statements, including an interview with the American journalist Tucker Carlson, in which she said that in Ukraine "there is no freedom of speech" and "everything is forbidden". According to the researchers, these words helped Russia's information influence. Mendel is located outside Ukraine. She said the cheating accusations proved her right. "In fact, with this accusation Zelensky proved that I was right," Mandel wrote on the X social network.