Russian invasion
Zelenskyj compares aggressor Russia with Nazis
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds harsh words for the aggressor Russia. photo
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Bombs, rockets, drone attacks: “Russia’s only tactic is terror,” said Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy in his video address. But his country’s resistance could not be broken.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has compared his country’s struggle against the aggressor Russia to resistance against the Nazis in World War II.
Like Nazism, Russia is pursuing the same goals. “The form of evil has changed, but the essence is unchanged,” said Zelenskyj in a video message distributed in Kyiv on Friday night. Russia has gone from being a neighbor to an aggressor and a terrorist – and is guilty of war crimes.
Standing next to a shot down combat drone, Zelenskyy said that peaceful cities were repeatedly being bombarded with bombs and rockets. In the past two days alone, there have been 30 Russian attacks with Iranian drones, 23 of which have been shot down. Russia mines or seizes power plants, steals crops to threaten the planet with hunger. It abducts people, including children.
“Tactics is Terror”
Referring to the Second World War and the Ukrainians’ fight against the Nazis, Zelenskyy said that “evil had risen again from the ashes after 80 years”. He lamented that since the war began on February 24, the aggressor Russia had fired 4,500 rockets at Ukraine and carried out a total of 8,000 airstrikes.
Zelenskyy emphasized that the Ukrainian resistance is strong. The country will not be broken. The head of state expressed confidence that the invader would capitulate and be put to flight. Russia will also pay reparations; and the occupied territories of Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea would be free again.
“Russia’s only tactic is terror,” Zelensky said. That can only lead to defeat. In view of the power cuts as a result of the destroyed energy infrastructure, he said that life without light is not dark, but rather without freedom. The Ukrainians would also overlook the harsh winter. “We are not afraid of the dark,” Zelenskyj said.