1/11. Putin absurdly claims he has to invade Ukraine to protect Russian-speakers. Russian speakers in Ukraine are far more free than Russian speakers in Russia.
2/11. For example, a Russian speaker in Russia who thought of running for president would be imprisoned, as Alexei Navalny has been. A Russian-speaker, meanwhile, can run for president of Ukraine and win.
3/11. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in this video speaks in Russian (beginning at 2:00) directly to the citizens of Russia. pravda.com.ua/news/2022/02/2…
4/11. He addresses Putin’s propaganda: “How can you call us Nazis when we gave millions of lives in the Second World War?”
5/11. “Tell it to my grandfather, who fought in the Soviet infantry and died as a colonel in independent Ukraine.”
6/11. President Zelensky does not mention that his grandfather’s father and much of his family were murdered in the Holocaust.
7/11. President Zelensky says that Russian culture and culture in general should unite people, not divide them.
8/11. He says that the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government want peace, but will defend themselves.
9/11. He says that he trusts that there are Russians who will understand him and understand the horror and sorrow of war.
10/11. “Do Russians want war? I would very much like an answer to that question. It depends upon you, citizens of the Russian Federation.”
11/11. President Zelensky ask Russians to disregard war propaganda and to take responsibility.
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