The Wagner Group’s armed mutiny shows the weakness of Russia, a country plunged into “evil and chaos,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, mocking the Russian president and believing that Ukraine is protecting the rest of Europe.
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In his initial reaction to events in Russia, Mr. Zelenskyy noted that anyone who “chooses the path of evil destroys himself,” referring to Vladimir Putin, who he says is “sending hundreds of thousands of people to war to… eventually to barricade themselves”. the Moscow region to protect himself from those whom he himself armed”.
“Russia’s weakness is obvious. “A total weakness,” he assessed in a message on social media, “it is also evident that Ukraine is capable of protecting Europe from the contagion of evil and Russian chaos.”
“Russia used propaganda to cover up its weakness and the stupidity of its government. And now the chaos is so big that no one can lie about it anymore,” he noted.