Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday described the upcoming Victory Day parade within the Russian capital, Moscow, on May 9 as a “parade of cynicism.”
“Tomorrow, the atrocities of the Nazis will be brought up by the organizer of mass graves in Bucha. And those who orchestrated the blockade of Mariupol will be the ones talking about the siege of Leningrad. It will be a parade of cynicism.”
“There is just no other way to describe it. A parade of bile and lies,” he mentioned.
“As if it were not dozens of allied states, but (Russian President Vladimir) Putin personally who defeated Nazism. As if it were he who raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin with his own hands,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a video tackle on the event of Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II.
Zelenskyy mentioned that his nation is combating for peace and understands what is required to realize it, arguing: “Either Russia must radically change, or the world will have to change.”
The Ukrainian president additional argued that what passed off 80 years in the past made clear to all that “evil cannot be appeased,” however slightly it should be fought with power “wherever it is possible.”
Zelenskyy’s remarks got here hours after a three-day unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine introduced by Putin final month got here into impact as of midnight, and is scheduled to stay in place till midnight on May 11.
The halt was declared as an annual navy parade will happen in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 with the participation of overseas leaders in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of Victory Day.
Victory Day is widely known on May 9 in Russia and different nations, together with some former Soviet states, to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in opposition to Nazi Germany throughout World War II—a battle Russia calls the Great Patriotic War.
Source: www.anews.com.tr