President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of using “deliberate terror” against Kharkiv residents and of deliberately “destroying the entire Donbass.” He also said that the Ukrainian army would do everything to protect the eastern regions of the country, and called for Russia to be cut off from the global banking system.
– Russian soldiers are preparing for an offensive in the near future in the east of our country. They want to literally destroy the Donbass, Zelenskiy said in a video posted on Facebook. He added that, as in Mariupol, the Russians “want to destroy cities and other local settlements in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.” “We will do everything to protect them,” he assured.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that in the last four days alone, 18 Kharkiv residents were killed and more than 100 were injured. The city is under constant shelling,” he noted, adding that the enemy is using “deliberate terror,” shelling residential areas with mortars and artillery.
Addressing his compatriots, he urged them to sabotage the orders of the occupiers and not cooperate with them. “You must be tough,” he called out.
Calls to arms and sanctions
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked everyone who helped Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression, but noted that “the fate of this fight also depends on those who have the weapons and ammunition we need.” “The fate of people who can be saved depends on them,” he stressed. According to him, any delay in the supply of weapons is “Russia’s permission to kill Ukrainians.” “The 53rd day of the war has passed, and we have been waiting for 53 days for a response on the supply of certain types of weapons,” the President of Ukraine said.
He added that the need for a complete embargo on Russian oil supplies “becomes more and more obvious every day.” He also called for the imposition of full sanctions on the entire banking and financial system of Russia in response to the criminal actions of Russian troops. – The democratic world must respond to the actions of the aggressors in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Torture centers are being created there, members of local authorities and everyone who is considered important to local communities are being kidnapped, pension money is being stolen, humanitarian aid is being blocked and stolen, people are starving, Zelensky listed.
As he stressed, the aggressors are trying to turn these schemes into so-called. Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics”, turn them into a ruble zone and subordinate to the Russian administrative machine. “All this requires Western countries to prepare powerful new sanctions much faster,” Zelensky stressed. He pointed out that the answer should be to impose sanctions on the entire banking and financial system of Russia, since it is part of the occupation machine.