Direct talks between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin are being called for by Ukraine as the third round of negotiations in Belarus made little progress.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Monday that Ukraine wants direct talks between President Volodymyr Zhelensky and Russia's Vladimir Putin , because Kiev knows Putin is the person in charge in Moscow.
"We have long desired a direct conversation between the president of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin because we all understand that he is the one who makes the final decisions, especially now," he said in a live television broadcast."
"Our president is not afraid of anything, including a direct meeting with Putin," Kuleba added. "If Putin is also not afraid, let him come to the meeting, let them sit down and talk."
"Help us, they are bombing everything that moves." Zelensky's dramatic appeal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier today made a dramatic appeal to American Jews for support against the Russian invasion, giving a heartbreaking account of the devastation in his country from the Russian invasion, a devastation he compared to that caused by the Nazi German army during its advance across Europe.
"This is just pure Nazi behaviour. I can't characterize it any other way," Zelenski said via video at the American Jewish Presidents' Conference. The Ukrainian president continues to push for the delivery to Ukraine of more fighter jets from the West and the imposition of a no-fly zone that NATO has so far rejected.
Zelensky read a list of cities and towns that he said have been destroyed by Russian forces while Ukrainians fight with everything they have, even without weapons.
"They are throwing their bodies in front of the tanks so you can understand what is happening here," the Ukrainian leader, who is Jewish, said in a video call via the Zoom platform.
The Russians are not letting people leave the cities they attacked, not allowing food and water in and disconnecting the Internet, television and electricity, he said.
"All this happened in the Nazi era," he said. "The survival of the Ukrainian nation the issue will be the same as anti-Semitism All these millions of people are going to be exterminated."
Zelensky said 13 people died in a bombing at a bakery in Kiev today and yesterday, Sunday, 50 children suffering from cancer had to be moved after a shell hit a children's hospital in the city.
Russia calls the campaign launched on February 24 a "special military operation" to disarm Ukraine and remove leaders it describes as neo-Nazis. Ukraine and its allies call it a pretext for an invasion to conquer a country of 44 million people.
The scope and scale of Russia's attack on his country was as unexpected and devastating as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were for Americans, he said.
"They bomb everything that moves," Zelensky said."
Source: Proto Thema
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