Zelensky accuses Russia of wanting to depopulate Donbas and destroy it like Mariupol

the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskydenounced this Friday that Russia intends to vacate the Donbas area with constant attacks, as it did with the city of Mariupol, which he described as a “Russian concentration camp in the middle of the ruins.”

“In Donbas, the occupiers are doing their best to destroy any life in this area. The constant brutal shelling, the constant Russian attacks on infrastructure and residential areas show that Russia wants to depopulate this area.” said in a video Zelensky.

Look: Lavrov rejects UN aid for evacuations

He added that if the Russian invaders succeed in carrying out their plans, at least in part, “they will still have enough artillery and planes to destroy the entire Donbas. Just as they destroyed Mariupol.”

This city in the east of the country, “Which was one of the most developed in the region, it is simply a Russian concentration camp in the middle of the ruins. And the order of the occupants in that part of Mariupol which unfortunately they still control differs very little from what the Nazis did in the occupied territory of Eastern Europe.denounced.

Besides, Zelensky thanked US President Joe Biden and Congress for what he saw as “an analogue of the famous Lend-Lease program, which will be very useful in the fight against Russia (…) which helped a lot in the fight against the Nazis during World War II.”

He was sure that this program will now help Ukraine everyone free “to defeat the ideological successors of the Nazis.”

Source: Elcomercio

Deshawn