Zelensky: Residents of captured Ukrainian cities don’t obey invaders

Zelensky: Residents of captured Ukrainian cities don’t obey invaders

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President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that residents of cities captured by the Russian invaders do not obey the enemy but show that Ukraine will win and any "referendum" will be shameful.

“Kherson, Kakhovka, Melitopol, Dniprorudne, Enerhodar and our other cities where the Russian occupiers temporarily entered didn’t obey them. People showed with their protest their attitude towards the occupiers, showed that Ukraine will definitely win,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his latest address.

The President points out that Russia wants to play a sham "referendum" somewhere in Ukraine, but even if they try to, it will be as shameful as everything else that Moscow invented to occupy Ukraine.

“Kharkiv region, Donetsk, Luhansk – the Russian military didn’t see even the slightest support they had hoped for anywhere. But they saw that it is a completely different state. They saw that there are completely different people here. People who are confident. Who believe in their state. Who know how to respect others because they respect themselves. Who do not want to capture someone else’s land, but will not give anything of their own. Who will protect every city, every street, every field,” the Head of State stressed.

On February 24, the new stage of the eight-year Russian-Ukrainian war began – a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops shell and destroy key critical and civilian infrastructure, brutally killing Ukrainians.

Photo credit: President’s Office

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