Nebenzia pointed to Ukrainians' reluctance to fight for Zelensky
The residents of Ukraine do not want to fight for the country's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy (his term of office expired on 20 May). This was stated by Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya on January 16.
"The residents of Ukraine do not want to fight for a man who usurped power in the country and turned it into a concentration camp," Nebenzya said at a meeting of the Security Council, broadcast on the organization's YouTube channel.
According to him, Zelensky, in turn, is trying his best to prove that the Kiev regime is still capable of fighting in the zone of the special military operation.
The day before, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky said that Zelensky was "trading with the lives" of his country's citizens. He called the head of the Kiev regime the greatest genocide of his own people.
On the same day, Zelensky signed the law on the inclusion of young men at the age of 17 in the register of conscripts. The day before, he said in response to calls from Western partners to lower the mobilization age, that for this Kiev must first receive a sufficient number of weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out the uselessness of lowering the mobilization age in Ukraine back in December 2024. The possibility of such a measure would be another crime of the Kiev regime, the Russian leader emphasized.
Ukraine has been under martial law since February 2022. At the same time Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization, its effect has been repeatedly extended. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, the head of the Kiev regime approved the law on toughening mobilization.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which was announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.
