Moscow, saying ‘terrible humanitarian catastrophe’ is unfolding in city, offers safe passages to fighters who lay down arms
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Hello it’s Samantha Lock back with you as my colleague Maanvi Singh signs off.
In what has become a regular nightly feature, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has delivered another emphatic televised address.
Zelenskiy mocked Russian forces, saying soldiers were sent for “military drills” only to find themselves on Ukraine’s land.
“All of them say so when they are captured,” he added.
"It has been 25 days that Russian troops are looking for and can’t
find “Nazis” whom they invented, from whom they purportedly want to
protect our people. They are looking for and can’t find Ukrainianswho
would greet them with flowers, at least in some city or in some village
of our state.
"And most importantly, Russian troops can’t find their way home.
That’s why our soldiers are helping them to find their way to God’s
judgement.
"God’s Judgment, at which, I’m convinced, they will receive one
punishment for all: an eternal basement. Forever under bombs, forever
without food, water, and heating. For everything that they have done
against our people, ordinary Ukrainians. Against civilians.”
Kyiv rejects Moscow’s 5am deadline for surrender of Mariupol
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