The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, He called on the Ukrainian military this Friday to take power and assured that with them “it will be easier to reach an agreement” to put an end to the Russian military operation that began this Thursday.
“Take the power in your hands! Apparently with you it will be easier to reach an agreement than with that gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who has settled in Kiev and has kidnaped to the entire Ukrainian people,” he declared at a meeting with the Russian Security Council devoted to the military operation.
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The Russian president called on the Ukrainian military “not to allow neo-Nazis and followers of (Ukrainian collaborator Stepán) Bandera who use your children, your wives and the elderly as human shields“. Moscow has described the Ukrainian authorities as “neo-Nazis” or a “junta” since 2014 and the outbreak of a war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Kiev forces, despite the fact that Zelensky has Jewish origins.
The Russian president stated that he is not fighting Army units but rather nationalist formations that behave “like terrorists” using civilians “as human shields” by placing their weapons in residential areas. “Then they want to accuse Russia of causing casualties among the civilian population,” he added.
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Hours earlier, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, He had called on Putin to sit down at the negotiating table, an option that the Kremlin did not immediately rule out, but to which it has not yet given a clear answer. This Thursday, after the first day of the Russian invasion, Zelesnki denounced that the purpose of the attack is to remove him from power.
“According to our information, I am the number one target of the enemy. My family the second. They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state,” he said.