2023-05-08 07:44:46
Russia will be defeated “in the same way” as Nazism was in 1945, launched Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the occasion of May 8, a day which commemorates the victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War.
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All the old evil that modern Russia brings back will be defeated the same way Nazism was defeated,” Zelensky said in an address posted on his social media shortly following another large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv, during of which more than thirty kamikaze drones were shot down over the capital.
“Just as we destroyed evil together then, we destroy similar evil together now,” he continued. And to add: “This evil, although different today, has the same goal: enslavement or destruction”.
This speech comes on the occasion of the world celebrations of May 8 and on the eve of a large military parade in Moscow supposed to exalt the Russian patriotic feeling, in which Vladimir Putin will participate.
“We will vanquish!” Volodymyr Zelensky promised once more in this recorded speech in front of an imposing World War II memorial complex overlooking the Dnieper River in Kyiv.
“We will never forget the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory over Nazism,” insisted Mr. Zelensky. “And we will not allow anyone to lie and say that victory in this war might have happened without the participation of another country or people,” he said.
Mr. Zelensky once more accused Moscow of having opposed “the ideals” of democracy “aggression and annexation, occupation and deportation, massacre and torture, the bombardment of cities and the burning of villages”.
“We will not lose what we have won, we will recover everything that has been captured by the enemy”, he still assured in this ten-minute speech.
Ukraine says it is completing preparations for a major offensive to recapture territories occupied by Russia in the east and south, in addition to annexed Crimea.
In recent days, drone attacks on the Ukrainian and Russian sides have intensified, a sign according to observers of the imminence of this assault on Kyiv.
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