Zelensky to Americans: We are fighting for your rights and values, just as for our own.
We are fighting Russians - your enemy, not your friends. We want to have this understanding in the US: we are partners. 1/
Zelensky: Victory of Putin is impossible. Because it'll be a failure of the United States as the leader of the world. 2/
Zelensky: You shouldn't force Ukrainians to do anything. They choose for themselves.
Respect for rights is our main law. Why do we fight against the Russians?
Not because they are Russians - but because they came and tried to force us. 3/
Q: Putin says Ukraine is either a Nazi regime or a hotbed of social leftism. Your response?
Zelensky: It's funny to hear this from Putin.
He came very close to the Nazi regime that dominated Europe 100 years ago with the actions of his army. 4/
Zelensky to Shapiro: You had a meeting with the main rabbi [of Ukraine]. He’s a heroic man and a father. His son is a Jew and he went to fight for Ukraine.
Would his son fight for a Nazi regime? That's not adequate what Putin is saying. 5/
Zelensky: I have Jewish ancestors. Telling that Ukrainians are Nazis and I represent a Kyiv Nazi regime - it's primitive [of Putin].
He should come up with some differing evidences, at least something. 6/
Zelensky: We have evidence of Putin’s Nazi regime: the consequences of his war against us. The deportation of Ukrainian children.
His regime is recognized by the ICC. Even old friends of Russia in the Middle East are fighting for Putin to return back our children. 7/
Zelensky: If you're not exerting any pressure on Ukrainians, if you have a dialogue with them, then you can agree on everything.
But if you start to force them or press on their dignity, Ukraine will turn around very fast. 8/
Zelensky: Most of Ukrainians who died were in the east of Ukraine.
Their families were half-Russian, half-Ukrainian, they were speaking mostly Russian.
Now the people are hating Russians, because they have brought death. 9/
Zelensky: If Putin succeeds [in Ukraine], the several leaders around the world, who have been in power for many years, will look at him and think: why shouldn't we try again? 10/
Zelensky: The Russians will always want the destruction of the US and it’s economy.
We were born in the Soviet Union, where this was a policy. Now, it’s returned by Putin. 11X
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