Zelensky:"Ukraine on your TV news & the real Ukraine are 2 totally different countries-Ours is real"

[kpete]

Zelensky says. "Ukraine on your TV news and the real Ukraine are two totally different countries. Ours is real."

Zelensky speaks to the nation. The gravity of the situation looks to have really gotten to him.

"Today I initiated a phone conversation with the president of the Russian Federation. The result was silence. Although it's the Donbas where there should be silence."

Zelensky remarks in Russian addressed to Russian people

"Lots of you have relatives in Ukraine, you studied in Ukrainian universities, you have Ukrainian friends. You know our character, our principles, what matters to us. Listen to yourselves, to the voice of reason. The people of Ukraine want peace."

"We are divided by a shared border of more than 2,000km. Almost 200,000 of your troops and thousands of military vehicles are standing alongside it. Your leadership has ordered them to move forward, onto another country's territory."

"This step could be the start of a big war on the European continent. The whole world is talking about what could happen any day now," says Zelensky. "Any provocation. Any flare-up – one that could burn everything."

"They're telling you that this flame will liberate the people of Ukraine, but the Ukrainian people are free.They remember their past and are building their future," Zelensky says. "Ukraine on your TV news and the real Ukraine are two totally different countries. Ours is real."

"And if the leadership of Russia doesn't want, for the sake of peace, to sit at the table with us, maybe it'll sit at the table with you. Do the Russians want war? I'd love to answer that question. But the answer only depends on you – citizens of Russia."

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, I don't think the citizens of Russia want war and can TELL this one is of aggression. Putin is

... using the SAME EXACT excuse Hitler used to attack the Sudetenland.

[BlackSkimmer]

3. Of course they don't.

Who wants war?

[dchill]

6. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump et al.

[Drum]

2. That was a moving and strong statement.

[relayerbob]

5. "Ukraine will break Putin"

I strongly suspect that this is ultimate truth. This will not end well for him or Russia. Ukraine will be battered and pillaged, but Russia will, ultimately, lose.

[Martin68]

7. I get my news from reliable sources like the Washington Post. They have reported extensively on

the "real Ukraine."

[UTUSN]

8. Words. Bullets.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. K&R