Zelensky recalled how Russia came up with a narrative/Office of the President Ukraine to hold “referendums under international auspices.” The President stressed that Russia has been entering this or that territory of Ukraine by military means for eight years.
The Ukrainian leader recalled that Russia is holding conditional “referendums” at gunpoint. This is happening outside the law and outside international law, Channel 24 informs.
Zelensky stressed: doesn’t this seem strange? In addition, the Ukrainian leader reminded: there are laws, there is a Constitution.
The President urged the author of the question to imagine that Russia would come to him. The occupying country can say: it seemed to her that someone there seemed to be insulting two or three people who spoke Russian. They seem to have been treated wrong in a restaurant or something was said in a store.
The Russian military will say that they do not care how such issues are resolved in civilized countries. They will say: we need to hold a referendum. And these Russian military will be on tanks. They will kill children. This format of a “civilized referendum” looks like Nazism.
Zelensky recalled what the Russian military is doing on the territory of Ukraine. The enemy rapes women, kidnaps children, forcibly deports Ukrainians to Russian territory.
They invented a narrative for themselves that they protect Russian-speaking people, and most of the cities that they completely destroyed, where there are no buildings, no people – in most of these cities there were Russian-speaking people. And they are now switching to Ukrainian because they are shocked how the Russian army could do this to them,” the president emphasized.
Zelensky stressed: what do Russia's desires constantly impose on Ukraine? Russians can hold referendums in their own state. In particular, they can find out how many years they should have a leader in power in one direction or another. The Russians have something to deal with on the territory of their own state.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lack armored vehicles
Zelensky stressed that Ukraine cannot simply give away human resources in a war. That is why Ukrainian defenders and defenders need weapons that work at a distance. Most of all, Ukraine needs armored vehicles. Without it, people are dying.
Ukraine has been waiting for a very long time for a fundamentally important weapon. Even at the beginning of the war, the Ukrainians asked to close the sky.
“We constantly found alternatives to this solution: if you can't close the sky – give us planes, but we didn't wait for the planes. If we can't give planes – give us modern air defense systems. We are looking forward to this,” Zelensky said.
He added that 10-15 cruise missiles enter Ukraine every day. The targets of the Russian invaders are civilian objects.
