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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy faces unprecedented criticism over war warnings
Stars and Stripes ^ | Liz Sly

Posted on 08/23/2022 6:09:09 AM PDT by JonPreston

KIEV, Ukraine — Until this week, Ukrainians seemed to see President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as beyond reproach, a national hero who stayed in Kiev despite the risk to his personal safety to lead his country against invading Russian troops.

In the interview with The Post, published Tuesday, Zelenskyy cited his fears that Ukrainians would panic, flee the country and trigger economic collapse as the reason he chose not to share the stark warnings passed on by U.S. officials regarding Russia’s plans.

“If we had communicated that . . . then I would have been losing $7 billion a month since last October...." Zelenskyy said.

Sevgil Musaieva, editor in chief of the Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian news site, posted on Facebook that she was “personally offended” by Zelenskyy’s explanation, saying it called into question the intelligence of Ukrainians. She wouldn’t have fled, she said, and the potential $7 billion-a-month cost to the economy has to be weighed against the lives lost

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
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To: JonPreston

I think everyone is getting tired of the prancing, loudmouth Zelensky. When the Eurotrash decide to kill him they will try to make it either heroic or ridiculous.


21 posted on 08/23/2022 6:34:47 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Hey ZZpeedy! Took a moment not to auto erotically comment to yourself? Baby steps, baby steps.


22 posted on 08/23/2022 6:36:52 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: JonPreston
Your poll is four months old.

With regard to President Zelensky, 91% of Ukrainians approve of his job performance. August 11, 2022

https://www.iri.org/news/iri-ukraine-poll-shows-strong-confidence-in-victory-over-russia-overwhelming-approval-for-zelensky-little-desire-for-territorial-concessions-and-a-spike-for-nato-membership/

23 posted on 08/23/2022 6:39:01 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: BlackbirdSST; SpeedyInTexas

Leave ZZpeedy alone! Don’t you know that the poor loon comments to himself?


24 posted on 08/23/2022 6:39:28 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: NorseViking

Well Norse, I saw through Zelensky from the get go....and this entire stage show he’s put on. And I will add this includes his wife....and his leadership partners on staff.

These people were planning on going to war .....and they were staging everything beforehand we’ve seen play out. They had no intentions of complying to any of the negotiations prior that they agreed on - they were simply preparing for war with Russia trusting that Nato would assist, as we also saw before and thereafter.

So I have a particuliar disdain for Zelensky and his co-horts.


25 posted on 08/23/2022 6:46:24 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

He also wants the professionals who fled Ukraine returned; he knows the brain drain will cripple them going forward.


26 posted on 08/23/2022 6:47:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: tlozo

Please disregard polls from Daniel Twining and his International Republican Institute. It’s Globalism served up with a side order of Neoconservativism


27 posted on 08/23/2022 6:48:27 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: kearnyirish2
I think most of Ukrainian's who have settled in other countries are not going to go back to Ukraine. They're fed up with years of conflicts and probably happy to be able to have a normal life where they are now.....I also believe any family that was left in Ukraine they will do what is necessary to bring them out of Ukraine along the way.
28 posted on 08/23/2022 6:51:10 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: WMarshal
Leave ZZpeedy alone! Don’t you know that the poor loon comments to himself?

Here he goes!

ZZpeedy

29 posted on 08/23/2022 6:51:24 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: caww

I don’t think most would return; he wants them forced back.

It isn’t just the conflicts; it is a corrupt failed state. They knew since the first invasion in 2014 that this was coming, and didn’t prepare for Part II.


30 posted on 08/23/2022 6:55:04 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

On August 12, Zelensky introduced two bills to the Verkhovna Rada on the extension of martial law from August 23 and on the extension of general mobilization for 90 days..... So any men returning will have to fight.


31 posted on 08/23/2022 7:05:04 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: JonPreston

Why don’t you focus on the illegals in the USA rather than posting feeds from the Kremlin?


32 posted on 08/23/2022 7:05:22 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: caww

I think it was July 11th 1943 there was no warning either.

The Ukrainians had their fun blocking and going into churches scalping, stabbing, skinning and burning people alive.

Eff them c-sucker slavs. Let em kill each other off.


33 posted on 08/23/2022 7:06:54 AM PDT by crz
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“ Don’t you have a website in RuZZia to post your crap?”
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LOL - He posted an article from ‘Stars and Stripes’ which is not known to be a Russian mouthpiece. Just sayin’. 🤦🏼🤦🏼


34 posted on 08/23/2022 7:12:18 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: caww

I’m talking about the inevitable peace; many see no future there, and don’t want to return (especially the skilled/educated ones) - and he wants them back.


35 posted on 08/23/2022 7:12:23 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: caww

Unable to leave the country, Ukrainian men worry about military drafts because the exemptions have been suspended now under extended martial law.


36 posted on 08/23/2022 7:13:46 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Cronos

Pay attention Cronos....this thread article isn’t from the Kremlin as you’re stating.


38 posted on 08/23/2022 7:15:47 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: kearnyirish2

Indeed Zelensky is trying to force Ukrainians back. He’s sent several bills thru to try and make that happen. He’s behaving like a dictator would by use of force.....yet claims Ukraine is a Democracy....it isn’t.


39 posted on 08/23/2022 7:18:26 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

Ukraine is a kleptocracy, which is why many won’t defend it.

I couldn’t imagine trying to conscript people in the US today; it simply couldn’t work. Our masses learned too much from the criminal conduct of our rulers during the Vietnam War - I’m sorry, “police action”...


40 posted on 08/23/2022 7:20:32 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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