Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the Russian people to speak out against the war. “Evil takes place on such a scale that silence equals complicity,” he said in his nightly video address on Sunday. Everyone, everywhere, should “do everything possible to make Russia and those who support the war pay an increasing price for Russian state terror.”
“If you have Russian citizenship and you’re silent, it means you’re not fighting, which means you support it,” Zelenskyy said. Contrary to previous appeals to the people of the belligerent neighboring country, the president did not make them in Russian but in Ukrainian.
According to several polls, a majority of Russians support President Vladimir Putin’s course. It is uncertain how meaningful this is. Open criticism of the war is severely punished by the Russian power apparatus.
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Zelenskyj welcomed the proposal for an EU-wide ban on entry visas for Russian citizens. The discussion on a corresponding proposal from the Czech Presidency of the EU Council is “intensifying every day”. Ultimately, this should lead to ‘reasonable decisions’, he hoped.
Source: Krone
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