LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned on Wednesday practically 6,000 Russians had been killed within the first six days of Moscow’s invasion, and that the Kremlin wouldn’t have the opportunity to take his nation with bombs and air strikes.
Referring to Russia’s assault on Babyn Yar – the positioning of a World War Two bloodbath of Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries – Zelenskiy mentioned: “This strike proves that for many individuals in Russia our Kyiv is completely international.”
“They do not know a factor about Kyiv, about our historical past. But all of them have orders to erase our historical past, erase our nation, erase us all,” he added within the tackle made on video.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk, Writing by Gabriela Baczynska, Editing by Andrew Heavens)
