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War will cost Russia for generations: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Updated On: 20 March, 2022 08:51 AM IST | Lviv | Agencies
Prez Zelenskyy accuses Kremlin of deliberately creating “a humanitarian catastrophe”, appeals to Putin to meet with him
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Policemen stand guard at the site where a bombing damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine. Pic/AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Saturday, said Russian forces are blockading his country’s largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned that the strategy will fail and Moscow will lose in the long run if it doesn’t end this war.
Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin of deliberately creating “a humanitarian catastrophe ” and appealed for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with him, using a huge Moscow stadium rally where Putin lavished praise on Russian forces on Friday to illustrate what was at stake. The rally and a concert in Moscow were held to commemorate the anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. The rally took place as Russia has faced heavier-than-expected losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home. “Just picture for yourself that in that stadium in Moscow, there are 14,000 dead bodies and tens of thousands more injured and maimed. Those are the Russian costs throughout the invasion,” Zelenskyy said in a nightly video address to the nation recorded in Kyiv.
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