President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that russian dictator vladimir putin does not love russians, otherwise he would not send them to wars of aggression in other countries. The russians also engaged in the enslavement and destruction of peoples within russia in order to erase their identity.
The head of state spoke about this in Lex Fridman's podcast, published by the Office of the President.
During the interview, Friedman said that to think that the president of a country is completely crazy, he is difficult to negotiate with, and suggested that putin loves his country. In response, Zelenskyy laughed and asked: "What are you talking about now? Who loves his country? Putin?" And when he received an affirmative answer, he asked a rhetorical question about what putin considers "his" country.
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"He suddenly considered Ukraine his country. And what is his country? Explain. And tomorrow he will say "America," Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian President recalled that now Chechnya is a russified part of russia, although they spoke a different language there, a different people lived there with a different faith. However, russia destroyed them.
"He killed them with love? I think, f***, in an embrace," Zelenskyy said and repeated once again that putin loves not the people, but the "little people" - his closest circle.
"You can't send your people to die on foreign land, knowing that they will die. The guys he is sending are 18 years old. 18 years old are children. He is sending them. It wasn't the fascists who came to his land, and they need to defend themselves. He came to ours. And he sent them. Chechnya - he sent, Syria - he sent, Africa - he sent, Georgia - he sent, Moldova, Transnistria - well, that was before him. Well, we'll do without him here, he's got enough sins. And here Ukraine, the largest part. 788,000 russians were killed or wounded. He calls them all russians, even those who don't know how to speak russian," Zelenskyy said.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, American blogger Lex Fridman recorded a 3-hour podcast with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Earlier, Lex Fridman, an American artificial intelligence researcher, interviewer, and podcaster, offered Volodymyr Zelenskyy to record a three-hour podcast with him in Kyiv. The Ukrainian President agreed to the offer and said he would wait for him in the Ukrainian capital.
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