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In a speech Friday night full of Nazi comparisons, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky turned Russia’s speaking points against it and said Moscow’s strategy was “more cynical.”
Zelensky said there were operational differences between Russian forces today and the Nazis during World War II, but said Moscow’s stubborn lies were what divided the two.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky spoke from Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Press service of the Ukrainian president through AP)
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“Russian troops managed to be even more cynical than the Nazis 80 years ago,” he said. “At that time, the invaders did not say that the Mariupol people and the defenders of the city were the ones who fired on themselves and committed suicide.
Russia has said it aims to fully control the eastern regions of Donbass as part of its “special military operation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly claimed, without supporting evidence, that his plans are to “disinfect” Ukraine and release oppressed Russian supporters.
Zelenski, who was democratically elected and a Jew, flatly denied the allegations.
Smoke rises above the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, in this still image obtained from a recent video with a drone posted on social media. (MARIUPOL CITY COUNCIL / through REUTERS THIS IMAGE IS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY LOAN. NO SELLS. NO ARCHIVES.)
“If the Russian invaders succeed in carrying out their plans, at least in part, they will still have enough artillery and planes to destroy the entire Donbass,” he said. “Just as they destroyed Mariupol.
“The city, which was one of the most developed in the region, is just a Russian concentration camp in ruins,” he added.
Mariupol was one of the worst-hit cities in the Russian war in Ukraine and remains contested as Russia failed to gain full control of it – despite claims of victory earlier this month.
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A senior defense official told reporters on Friday that Russia was trying to take control of Donbass by pushing it from the north through Izyum, up through Mariupol to the south and against previously held eastern fortresses.
“But they are facing direct Ukrainian resistance. That is why we believe that this progress is slow and uneven,” the official said. “We believe and appreciate that they are lagging behind the schedule in what they were trying to achieve in Donbass.
This week, Congress revived a World War II-era program that helped defeat the Nazis by removing certain parameters to allow the Allies to receive military aid more effectively.
Ukraine’s BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher system fires at Russian troops near Luhansk in the Donbass region on Sunday. (Photo: ANATOLIY STEPANOV / AFP via Getty Images)
The Lend-Lease Program will provide easier defense opportunities for lending to Kyiv, as well as to “Eastern European countries affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
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Zelensky supported this move and said: “I am sure that now the lease will help Ukraine and the whole free world to defeat the ideological heirs of the Nazis, who started a war against us on our land.
“Lend-Lease and other programs in support of Ukraine are concrete proof that freedom is still able to defend itself against tyranny,” he added.
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