Shortly before the start of the high-level UN general debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a third world war and compared Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Russian society has lost the respect of the world public, Zelensky said in an interview with the “60 Minutes” program broadcast yesterday, according to an English translation by the North American broadcaster CBS.
“They elected him and re-elected him and brought in a second Hitler,” Zelensky said. You can’t turn back time, but you can stop Putin now.
“If Ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years?” continued Zelensky. If the Russians reached Poland, would there be a third world war, he asked. Therefore, the whole world must decide whether Putin should be stopped or whether he wants to provoke the start of a world war.