“Russia has forgotten everything that was important to the victors of World War II,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Sunday, on the eve of commemorations in Russia on May 9 celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany.
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Mr Zelensky blasted in a video message on Sunday evening “heavy shelling” in several Ukrainian regions, including one that killed 60 people at a school in the east, “as if it were not May 8 today ‘today, as if tomorrow were not the 9th, when the watchword should be peace for all normal people’.
“Ukraine and the free world will remember that,” he said.
According to Mr. Zelensky, Ukraine “has shown that it is part of the free world and a united Europe” in the face of “the independence of Moscow in evil and hatred, which everyone will see tomorrow”.
On Monday, the traditional May 9 military parade will be held in Moscow on Red Square, an opportunity for Russia to show force in the midst of an invasion of Ukraine.
“The Russian army would not be itself if it did not kill”, accused Mr. Zelensky once more in his video message when referring to the “60 people killed” in a strike on Saturday on a school in the east of Ukraine where civilians were taking refuge.
