Evil has returned: Zelenskyy on WW2 anniversary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday that evil had returned to Ukraine however that Kyiv would prevail in an emotional handle as Europe marks the give up of Nazi Germany in World Warfare II.

Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine ended 77 years of peace, he stated on Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. Ukraine fought alongside Russia as a part of the Soviet Union in World Warfare II.

His video handle, filmed in entrance of charred Ukrainian condo blocks with footage of Russian missile strikes, comes a day earlier than Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin marks the Soviet victory with an enormous army parade.

“Darkness has returned to Ukraine a long time after World Warfare Two… The evil has returned,” Zelenskyy stated. “In a distinct kind, below totally different slogans, however for a similar goal.”

“No evil can escape accountability, it can’t conceal in a bunker,” he stated. Nazi chief Adolf Hitler spent the final days of his life in a bunker in Berlin the place he dedicated suicide within the last days of the conflict.

Zelenskyy didn’t title Putin all through his video handle, however used vivid language to precise his horror on the devastation.

“A bloody re-enactment of Nazism has been staged. A fanatical imitation of this regime. Its concepts, actions, phrases and symbols,” he stated.