The President of Ukraine declared on Monday that Russia will be defeated in the same way that Nazism was defeated in 1945, on the day that commemorates the Allied victory and the end of World War II.
“All the old evil that modern Russia brings will be defeated again in the same way that Nazism was defeated,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech posted on his social media, vowing to “liberate” the territories occupied by Moscow.
“Just as together we destroyed evil, now together we will destroy a similar evil (…). That evil, although it is different today, has the same objective: to enslave or destroy,” he added.
“We will win!” promised Volodymyr Zelensky, in this speech recorded in front of a towering World War II memorial overlooking the Dnieper River in kyiv.
Zelensky insisted: “We will never forget the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory over Nazism.”
“We will not allow anyone to appropriate the common victory of the nations of the anti-Hitler coalition,” declared the Ukrainian president.
May 9 has become a central date for Russian nationalism, which refers to the war against Nazism as the “Great Patriotic War” and only highlights the role of the USSR in the victory.
Zelensky again accused Moscow of opposing democratic ideals, and accused the Russians of “aggression and annexation, occupation and deportation, massacre and torture, bombing of cities and burning of villages.”
“We are not going to lose what we have won, we are going to recover everything that was captured by the enemy,” he also assured in this 10-minute speech.
Zelensky declared that he will send today to the Verkhovna Rada [Parlamento ucraniano] a law to declare May 8 as Victory Day against Nazism in Ukraine, which until now was celebrated on May 9, like Russia.
In this way, Zelensky aligns Ukraine with the rest of the European countries, which celebrate the victory of the allies against Nazism on May 8.
Ukraine says it is completing preparations for a major offensive to retake Russian-occupied territories in the east and south, as well as Crimea, annexed in 2014 by Russia.
Drone attacks on both sides have intensified in recent days, a sign, according to observers, of the imminence of this attack by kyiv.
Source: TSF
