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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday reacted to disturbing new images coming out of a suburb of the capital Kyiv showing the bodies of executed civilians by calling Russia’s attacks “genocide.”
“Indeed, this is genocide,” Zelenskyy said during a “Face the Nation” interview on CBS. “The elimination of a whole nation, and the people — we are citizens of Ukraine.”
“We have more than a hundred nationalities. This is about destruction and extermination of all these nationalities,” Zelenskyy told host Margaret Brennan. “We are the citizens of Ukraine and we don’t want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation. This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated. And this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century. So this is the torture of the whole nation.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heads to a meeting with President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Brennan asked Zelenskyy whether he believed the world would “actually make good on this promise” to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for war crimes, prompting him to say that everything “has to be fair and according to justice, as the civilized world will decide.”
Zelenskyy went on to say that he doesn’t believe it is “fair” to only hold Putin accountable and punish him, adding, “I think all of the military commanders, everyone who gave instructions and orders should be punished adequately.” However, he said that the “adequate punishment” for these people is “difficult to be achieved.”
“It has to be done according to the law and what they have done,” Zelenskyy continued. “And I want to apologize to you and to those people who are watching us now, but for some things that they have done — when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated, such things I don’t understand, I don’t…
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