Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has touched a sensitive nerve with his call for “preventive strikes” – not only in Moscow. NATO “must rule out the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons. But what’s important – and that’s why I’m turning to the international community like before February 24 – is that these are preventive strikes, so that they know what’s in store for them if they use them.” “Not the other way around,” he emphasizes during his appearance on Thursday in front of the Lowy Institute. “Waiting for blows from Russia and then saying: ‘Oh, you’re getting me like that, then you’ll get it from us now'”.
Selenskyj’s spokesman Serhij Nykyforov immediately stated that his demand had been misunderstood. The Ukrainian President only said that before February 24 – the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine – preventive measures were necessary to prevent the war.