Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become Putin’s number one target, but an assassination attempt was foiled. He speaks again on Telegram.
- The war between Russia* and the Ukraine* could decide in the battle for Kyiv.
- The Ukrainian capital is still home to the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy*, on. Russia’s President Wladimir Putin* made him the number one target.
- All news about Ukraine conflict* and on the whereabouts of Zelenskyj in our news ticker.
+++ 4.25 a.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared a tough fight against his country’s opponents. “You will not have peace here, you will not have food here, you will not have a quiet minute here,” said the 44-year-old in a video message on Thursday night. Occupiers would only get one thing from the Ukrainians: “So fierce resistance that they will forever remember that we will not give up what is ours.”
The Russian soldiers are not warriors of a superpower. “These are children who have been used. Bring them home,” said Zelenskyj. Ukraine doesn’t want to be covered in corpses. “Tell your commander that you wish to live and not die.”
Referring to the UN General Assembly, in which most countries on Wednesday in New York supported a resolution condemning Russia’s attack, Zelenskyy said: 141 countries voted for Ukraine, for Russia 4 – North Korea, Eritrea, Syria, Belarus. “This is the list. Those are the friends.”
Zelenskyy reports on Telegram: praise for the Ukrainian people
+++ 1.34 a.m.: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke again on Telegram. He is proud of the “heroic” resistance to the Russian invasion, and Moscow’s “insidious” plans have been thwarted. “We are a nation that thwarted the enemy’s plans in a week. Plans that have been written for years: insidious, full of hatred for our country, our people,” Zelenskyy said in the Telegram video.
He further added that around 9,000 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the Russian invasion. However, this assertion cannot be verified, since Moscow does not report Russian losses at all or not reliably.
Ukraine war: assassination attempt on President Zelenskyj foiled
+++ 12.30 p.m.: On Tuesday, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, announced the thwarting of an assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The assassination was to be carried out by the so-called “Kadyrov troops”, a notorious special unit of Chechen mercenaries under the command of Ramzan Kadyrov.
“We are well aware of the special operation that was supposed to be carried out directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president,” Danilov said in a Telegram posting. According to Ukrainian sources, the assassination was foiled thanks to help from Moscow. From there, a tip was received from circles in the Russian secret service, which did not support Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Daliov further stated that the Kadyrovite group had been split into two groups, one of which was defeated in Gostromel and the other was “under attack”.
Zelenskyy survives assassination attempt by elite Chechen soldiers
+++ 10.25 a.m.: Despite the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is still in the hard-fought capital of Kyiv. From there, the Ukrainian President regularly speaks from an air raid shelter. According to Ukrainian security authorities, Zelenskyy just barely survived an attack by elite Chechen soldiers. According to Ukrainian sources, the attackers were “eliminated”. Selenskyj himself is well. Several international media outlets confirmed the attack.
The assassination attempt on Zelenskyy was ordered by Putin and the Kremlin, according to the Ukrainian side. It was carried out by the so-called “Kadyrov troops”, a notorious special unit of Chechen mercenaries under the command of Ramzan Kadyrov.
Selenskyj himself gave an interview from his bunker to the US news channel CNN just a few hours ago. The President of Ukraine appeared in good spirits and determined to continue the war against Russia.
In the Ukraine war, Volodymyr Zelenskyj addressed the European Parliament directly
Update from Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022, 7:26 a.m.: In an emotional appeal to the European Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded his country’s admission to the European Union. “We are fighting for our rights, for our freedom, for our lives. And now we are fighting to survive,” he said in a video message at the beginning of a special session.
Meanwhile, according to Ukrainian sources, five people were killed in the air raid on the television tower in Kyiv, and the broadcast of television programs was temporarily interrupted. The tower stands near the Babyn Yar Gorge and the memorial to a massacre of Jewish Ukrainians committed there by the Wehrmacht during World War II. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself a Jew, denounced that the world is silent while bombs fall on Babyn Yar. “Once again these barbarians are murdering the victims of the Holocaust,” he wrote on Twitter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, reiterated his conditions for ending the “military operation”. The government in Kyiv must recognize the “people’s republics” of Luhansk and Donetsk and Russia’s sovereignty over the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, the Kremlin said. In addition, Ukraine must be demilitarized and given a neutral status.
Ukraine war: “He won’t survive that” – Putin is chasing Selenskyj
Update, 2:52 p.m.: In a live video address to the EU Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “equal” membership in the European Union. “We are fighting for our rights, for our freedom, for our lives,” Zelenskyj said in his urgent appeal. “We are fighting for our survival and that is the highest motivation. But we also want to be equal members in Europe.”
Zelenskyj also announced on Twitter that he had spoken to Olaf Scholz on the phone. “We talked about the Russian shelling of residential areas in Ukrainian cities during the peace talks.” In addition, work on Ukraine’s accession to the EU must be accelerated.
Ukraine war: “He won’t survive that” – Putin is chasing Selenskyj
First report from Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, 11:02 a.m.: Kyiv – Volodymyr Zelenskyy became a hero in the Ukraine war. The Ukrainian President could have made it easy for himself. However, Zelenskyy rejected the US offer to fly him out of Kyiv. “The struggle is here,” was his message to the West. He needs ammunition, not an offer to leave the country.
However, Selenskyj could see his courage at a high price. Will he even survive the Ukraine war? The voices that doubt this are increasing. In the USA* The former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt also said in an interview with the MSNBC TV channel that Zelenskyj would probably die in Kyiv.
Ukraine war: “Putin tries to kill Volodymyr Zelenskyy”
“This man is being hunted,” Schmidt said. “Vladimir Putin is trying to kill him.” Selenskyj himself does not walk around the world naively. On the first day of the Ukraine war on February 24, 2022, he declared in a video speech that the enemy had “marked him as target Hummer one according to our information” and that his family was target number two.
Zelenskyj’s behavior in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine commands the greatest respect from US expert Schmidt. “In a moment of greatest danger, this man addressed the message to his people for the whole world to hear: ‘Fear not.'” That was impressive. “We are suddenly reminded that the price of freedom is very high.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyj surpasses himself in the Ukraine war
In fact, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not really taken seriously for a long time. He was a comedian who had no political experience until his election as Ukraine’s president in 2019. However, he had previously played a teacher who is unexpectedly elected president in the satirical television series Servant of the People.
However, that was all just fiction. In reality, there is now a war in Ukraine. And Volodymyr Zelenskyj surpasses himself in this situation. The only question is whether he will survive the war. (cs/nak with dpa) *fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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