“Show your position”: Zelensky urges global support for Ukraine in a month of Russian invasion

President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for worldwide demonstrations in support of Ukraine as the Russian invasion reaches the one-month mark on Thursday. The Ukrainian president made the remarks in a speech posted on Facebook late on Wednesday (23), with the aim of seeing the demonstrations begin tomorrow.

“It breaks my heart, the hearts of all Ukrainians and all free people on the planet. That’s why I asked him to oppose the war from March 24th, exactly one month after the Russian invasion. From this day and after that, show your position, come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities. Come in the name of peace, come with Ukrainian symbols to support Ukraine,” urged the president.

Zelensky said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war on freedom and that Russia intends to defeat freedom across Europe and the world.

“Support freedom, support life. Come to its squares, its streets, make yourself visible and heard. Say people matter, freedom matters, peace matters, Ukraine matters,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian leader urged the world to unite against Russia’s invasion, saying that “Russia’s war is not just the war against Ukraine, its meaning is much broader.”

Neutralize Ukraine

In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, from CNNOn Tuesday (22), Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia’s objectives have remained the same since the beginning of the operation: demilitarize and neutralize Ukraine, get rid of neo-Nazi battalions and reconnaissance of territories. independent.

“No one is angry with Ukraine or Ukrainians, only those who forbid the speaking of Russian, those who carry Nazi symbols on the streets, those people who want NATO threatening Russia,” Peskov said, defending that the occupation of the country is not the objective. Russian.

Asked about the attacks, Peskov once again denied the attacks on civilians and accused Ukrainian nationalist troops of preventing the residents from escaping: “We have received many refugees from this region and they say they are being used as shields, these nationalists were killing people who were trying to leave the city. Our main objective is to rid the city of these bandits.”