“In two months, they have used more than 1,100 rockets, countless air bombs and artillery against us. They have tortured, robbed, shot. They have mined our land. They have turned peaceful towns and villages into hell.
Some Ukrainian towns and villages have been destroyed to the ground. But still nothing has been achieved. And will not reach, “stressed Zelensky.
The president said that Kherson, Kakhovka, Melitopol, Dniprorudne, Enerhodara and other cities occupied by the Russian occupiers had not obeyed them. “People have shown that Ukraine will definitely win with their protest, with their attitude towards the occupiers,” the president noted.
“Russia wants to play a sham referendum somewhere on our land? Even if it is tried, it will be as shameful as everything else that Moscow has devised for the occupation of Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
“Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts – nowhere did Russian soldiers see even a fraction of the support they relied on so heavily.
But they saw that it was a completely different country. They saw that there were completely different people here. People who are confident in themselves, who believe in their country, who know how to respect others because they respect themselves. Who will not take a stranger, but will not return anything of his own. Who will defend every city, every street, every countryside, “said the President of Ukraine.
CONTEXT:
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to start Russian troops invade Ukraine. Putin claimed that NATO was going to use Ukraine as a bridgehead for aggression against Russia, although there was no evidence of these allegations. Ukraine believes that Putin’s real goal is to destroy Ukraine’s statehood and bring the territory under Moscow’s control.
Russia hoped to occupy Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities within a few days, but the Ukrainian armed forces showed fierce resistance to the occupiers and Russia has failed to meet its targets. Russian occupation forces continue to fire on Ukrainian cities, causing increasing civilian casualties.
In early April, the international community was shocked by news from the Kiev region of the city of Bucca, where Russian troops brutally retaliated against the civilian population. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described it as a war crime and genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Around 5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the start of the war.
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has provoked a general one condemnation of the international communityagainst Russia is new sanctions have been introduced. Many Western companies have decided to leave the Russian market.
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