Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t love his nation and folks as he’s sending Russia's youth to die in his wars of aggression, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview with U.S. podcaster Lex Fridman launched on Jan. 5.
"He doesn’t love his individuals. He loves solely his internal circle," Zelensky stated in response to Fridman's suggestion that Putin is a "severe one that loves his nation."
"What’s his nation? He occurred to think about Ukraine his nation," the president responded within the three-hour-long interview, stating that Putin had beforehand additionally launched a harmful conflict towards Chechnya, now a constituent republic of the Russian Federation.
Putin rose to energy through the Second Chechen Warfare in 1999-2000, through which Russia forcibly subjugated the area and seized its capital, Grozny, after a devastating siege.
"Who’re the Chechens? A distinct individuals: One other religion… One other language. A million individuals eradicated…. How did he kill them – with love?" Zelensky requested rhetorically.
Ukraine's head of state additionally confused that Russia's all-out conflict towards Ukraine resulted in 780,000 of its troopers killed or wounded, including that Putin "calls all of them Russians, even those that don't know the way to communicate Russian, on his territory of Russia, all the pieces they've enslaved."
"He's (Putin) sending 18-year-boys (to die in conflict)… It's not that the fascists got here to his nation, and he must defend it. He got here to ours, and he sends them," Zelensky continued, offering different examples of Moscow's wars and army interventions in Syria, Chechnya, Georgia, and Africa.
Although the precise Russian losses within the full-scale invasion are tough to determine with certainty, The Economist wrote that they already outpace Moscow's battlefield losses in all of its post-1945 wars mixed.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Denisova