Posted on 02/25/2022 12:35:59 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to remain in the capital even as Russian troops fought to enter Kyiv, Zelensky said, "The enemy identifies me as the number one target."
"They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state," Zelensky told Ukrainians in a video during early hours of Friday.
His family was the No. 2 target, he said, but also remained in Ukraine. "My family is not traitors, but citizens of Ukraine. But I have no right to say where they are now."
Zelensky said he was staying "with everyone who is needed for the work of the central government," hours after the Biden administration warned lawmakers that Kyiv could soon fall.
Russian forces pressed closer to the city Friday, waging a full-scale attack that Western officials said sought to topple Ukraine's government. Explosions jolted the city, air raid sirens blared and people shelterrd in deep subway stations. The Defense Ministry said there were "saboteurs" just miles from Kyiv's center.
In a video address, Zelensky called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to sit down for talks.
Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was ready to send a delegation to Minsk for talks, but made clear it still expected "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine.
Before the onslaught of tanks and troops, Putin had demanded Ukraine abandon any aspirations for joining NATO, give up all weapons and recognize Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, as part of Russia.
NATO and Europe had left his country alone to defend itself. Zelensky added, warning that the sanctions by Western allies were not enough to stop the violence. He urged European governments to do more, from withdrawing ambassadors to imposing an oil embargo and airspace closures.
How are you going to defend yourselves when you're so slow to help us in Ukraine?" he asked.
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Cities experience destruction depending on the severity of the fighting in them. Kiev was pretty much destroyed by the Russians in 1943.
Need more information about Zelensky before we praise him.
After all: he’s not the first head of state to stay put in a bunker while the Russians advance on his position.
Not saying he’s good or bad. Just need more than this episode of self-publicity.
The Russians booby trapped the City before the Germans occupied it, they killed a lot of Germans blowing up the buildings.
But that was 1943. Things are different now.
“Putin is removing the Deep State Nazis from Ukraine. It is definitely a strategic operation. The Deep State has 11 biological labs in Ukraine where they are doing work similar to Wuhan. The last I heard, seven of those labs have been destroyed including a few along the Russian border.
Ukraine is a money laundering hub for the Deep State and the crooked politicians. That’s why they’re all crying out about this operation calling it an invasion and so on. FJB, Pelosi, Romney, and Kerry all have/ had their sons working for oil and gas companies there. Yet, none of them speak the language or have any experience in the oil and gas industry.”
Careful, you’re gonna upset the brandon loyalists here.
Hopefully we don't lose him after the bunker scene.
So then we stay out of this and let Europe grow up and deal with it.
Ukraine isn’t a NATO member.
Do you have any links about those reputed biolabs that we can evaluate?
Not a challenge, just a request. This conflict has a high noise-to-signal ratio. Anything that you could provide would be helpful to FR.
Obama organised the color coup in Ukraine, installed puppets and appropriated Ukraine's gold. And started Germany's re-orientation towrds Russia.
America should indeed stay out of it. Shame we can't make it retrospective.
Bkmk
Buh-bye, Zelensky.
It’s been nice knowing you.
Probably the same ‘sources’ that claim Trump is still President, Biden was never sworn in nor even been to the White House, and the person we see on TV is a body double of Biden and the real Biden is nowhere to be found, and Trump is in a bunker in Iceland directing our currently military-controlled US government.
Zelensky called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to sit down for talks.
Don’t drink the wine president Zelensky, it’s a trap.
5.56mm
“Nobody is gonna start ww3 with Russia over this”
No one needs to start any war. 3 years from now, you pederasts will be back to export of porn as your main source of income.
Zelensky is a western puppet . Hopefully these peace talks work out for Ukraine and the invasion can end.
Reality is stranger than fiction. Am I correct - this is the first administration to use a mockup of the WhiteHouse?
And for Biden to do most of his Presidenting off-site (I want to say somewhere in Delaware, forgive my ignorance if not). Some site that doesn't have to maintain a public record of visitors?
Presumably they also have another mockup of the White House there, so that Puddinghead doesn't get confused.
More of a real man than the Lord Haw Haws with their lips wrapped around Putin’s genitalia who are trying to justify this with blather about what Ukraine did.
Death to the last Russian in Ukraine and anyone who supports or justifies this invasion.
Ukraine isn’t even Ukraine anymore.
If you had said 'Greenland' instead, we would all have had a lightbulb moment :0)
'Aha! Thats why he wanted to buy it!'
Please take your medication
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