According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow does not have the courage to admit its misguided policy towards its neighbor.
“They are afraid to admit that for decades they took the wrong positions and spent colossal resources to support human zeros they wanted to build as future heroes of Ukrainian-Russian friendship,” Zelenskyy said in his daily video speech last night.
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Moscow’s attempt to build its own people in Ukraine did not work. Because these people “were only trained to stuff Russian money into their own pockets.” To cover up these mistakes, new mistakes were made. But in doing so, Russia deprived itself of all political instruments and finally started this war.
Also, Russia is trying to shift the blame for everything to Ukraine. “They took Crimea, we are supposed to be to blame for that,” Zelenskyy said. “They destroyed all normal lives in the Donbas, we are supposed to be to blame for that. They’ve been killing people in our country for eight years, they say it’s our fault.”
This also applies to the destruction of the strongest economic region in Eastern Europe and the destruction of the lives of millions of people. “And finally they started a full-scale war against us, and again we are to blame.” And all this for “sheer cowardice”, summarized Zelenskyy.