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Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin reacted sharply to the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenský. He had previously said that “there has never been such a conflict as is currently taking place in Ukraine.”
In his Telegram channel, Volodin reminded that a special military operation is taking place. “If Russia had waged a total war, it would have been over a long time ago,” he said. In this case, only the scorched earth would remain. According to Volodin, so did “the most democratic air force in the world.” in Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Syria. “
But Russian soldiers and officers, as the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament emphasized,” do not kill, but liberate civilians, sacrificing their lives. “They are doing everything to save civilians and the neo-Nazi resistance centers are being eliminated in points.
Volodin added that Ukrainian nationalists are fighting in cities, in dense residential areas. There they are hiding behind a 'human shield' and taking women hostage. and children.
According to him, the decision is made, as in the situation with Azovstal, when humanitarian corridors are organized. “But Zelensky is silent about it,” Volodin added.
As a result According to the chairman of the State Duma, the Ukrainian leader thinks only of how to preserve personal power, not the lives of Ukrainian citizens.
Earlier, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited the capital of Ukraine, where they met with Vladimir Zelensky, where the parties discussed the return of US MPs to Kiev and agreed that embassy staff could return and continue their work. this one den.