KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned 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 deadly shooting at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday.
“It is apparent that Putin and different thugs are simply attempting in charge another person,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “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 mentioned Zelenskiy was “the one head of state loopy sufficient in charge Russia for the terrorist assault.”
Earlier, Putin mentioned 11 individuals had been detained following the assault, together with the 4 gunmen. “They tried to cover and moved in the direction of Ukraine, the place, in line with preliminary information, a window was ready for them on the Ukrainian aspect to cross the state border,” Putin mentioned.
Zelenskiy mentioned Putin ought to use his personal males to battle terrorism at dwelling as a substitute of invading Ukraine.
“They’ve introduced lots of of 1000’s of their very own terrorists right here, on Ukrainian land, to battle in opposition to us, and so they do not care about what is occurring inside their very own nation,” he mentioned.
“Yesterday, as all this occurred, as a substitute of coping with his fellow Russian residents, addressing them, the wimp Putin was silent for a full 24 hours, interested by the right way to tie this to Ukraine. It is all completely predictable,” Zelenskiy mentioned.
