KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in his nightly video deal with on Saturday (Mar 23) that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in search of methods to divert blame for a lethal capturing at a live performance corridor close to Moscow on Friday.
“It is apparent that Putin and different thugs are simply making an attempt in charge another person,” Zelenskyy stated. “Their strategies are all the time the identical. We have seen all of it earlier than, destroyed buildings and shootings and explosions. They usually all the time discover another person in charge.”
Chechen rebels accused Russian secret providers of being behind house bombings in Moscow, Buynkask and Volgodonsk, blamed on Chechens, that killed greater than 200 individuals in Russia in 1999, prompting Putin, who was then prime minister, to ship troops again to Chechnya.
A Russian International Ministry spokeswoman stated Zelenskiy was “the one head of state loopy sufficient in charge Russia for the terrorist assault.”
Earlier, Putin stated 11 individuals had been detained following the assault, together with the 4 gunmen. “They tried to cover and moved in direction of Ukraine, the place, based on preliminary knowledge, a window was ready for them on the Ukrainian facet to cross the state border,” Putin stated.
Zelenskiy stated Putin ought to use his personal males to battle terrorism at dwelling as an alternative of invading Ukraine.
“They’ve introduced lots of of hundreds of their very own terrorists right here, on Ukrainian land, to battle in opposition to us, they usually do not care about what is occurring inside their very own nation,” he stated.
“Yesterday, as all this occurred, as an alternative of coping with his fellow Russian residents, addressing them, the wimp Putin was silent for a full 24 hours, serious about find out how to tie this to Ukraine. It is all completely predictable,” Zelenskiy stated.
