Zelensky says he's Russia's 'No. 1 target' but will stay in Kyiv -- and he's calling for talks with P

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to remain in the capital even as Russian troops fought to enter Kyiv, although he said, “The enemy has identified me as the number one target.”

“They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state,” Zelensky told Ukrainians in a video in the early hours of Friday.

His family was the No. 2 target, he said, but also remained in Ukraine. “My family is not traitors, but citizens of Ukraine. But I have no right to say where they are now,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian leader said he was staying “with everyone who is needed for the work of the central government,” hours after the Biden administration warned lawmakers that Kyiv could soon fall.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-president-zelensky-family-target/

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[secondwind]

1. This is godawful....

He’s between a rock and a hard place.

[E. Normus]

3. He Knows

Truly a brave man doing what he believes to be right. But, he knows Putin will not allow him to live.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Ah Jeez, Putin a horrible little man with a tiny little ....ego

Is going to murder Zelensky and as many of his supporters as he can because......?...... because the Ukraine wants democracy.

Because Zelensky hurt Putin's feelings.

[Phoenix61]

5. Making a martyr of a leader rarely turns out well

for the assholes who do that. I’m sure Zelensky knows that.

[Hekate]

8. Plenty of Russian martyrs whisper from their cells & graves in the Gulag, I am sorry to say.

Russia is a brutal place.

[70sEraVet]

6. People will fight to the end, when they know their leader is standing with them.

Putin may have picked the wrong country to invade.

[Hekate]

7. He's a brave man, and needs to be there. May he and his family be safe.