Mikhail Podolyak (photo: www. radiosvoboda. org) Advisor to the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak stated that it was to "freeze" the war with a new DPRK with millions of hostages. To freeze the war is to get a new DPRK with millions of hostages. Ukraine needs weapons, we must immediately free people, ”he wrote on Twitter. Podolyak reminded that the Russian occupation of southern Ukraine is mass arrests and torture.