In his address to the nation on the anniversary of Ukraine’s Victory Day, the president compared Volodymyr Zelensky The Kremlin with the Third Reich and Nazism.
– The world slept through the revival of Nazism at five o’clock in the morning on February 24, 2022. And today everyone who remembers World War II and lived to this day feels deja vu, he says.
From a school basement in northern Ukraine, in the village of Yahidne, Volodymyr Zelenskyi delivered his annual address to the nation.
The reason is that the country celebrates its Victory Day on May 8th to commemorate the surrender of the Nazis after World War II in 1945.
In his speech, he drew parallels between Russia’s Kremlin and the Nazi Third Reich.
– 80 years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever. But today, Ukrainians are once again standing up against the evil that was revived and wants to destroy us again, he says in his speech.
– If the modern Kremlin resembles the Third Reich in every way, it means that its end must be identical – in the new Nuremberg (court) in the city of The Hague.
“Prevent new evil”
He also urged that a “united free world” is needed.
– Just like in 1945, only a united free world can do this, the world united in anti-Putin coalition, which can, not with words, but with deeds, stop Nazis in Moscow, prevent new evil from spreading across Europe and since the whole world, says Zelensky.
The president of Ukraine also believes that the event from the middle of the 20th century will be repeated and become part of the history books of the 21st century – “the story of a joint victory over Russian evil”.
– I congratulate you on the day of remembrance and the victory over Nazism in the Second World War.