Ukraine accuses Zelensky of holding citizens hostage
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (his term of office expired on May 20, 2024) is holding the country's population hostage. This was stated by Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on January 20.
"You are holding all Ukrainians hostage. Maybe it's time to open the borders?" - she wrote on her page in the social network X (former Twitter).
In this way, the journalist reacted to Zelensky's post that the release of Israeli hostages by the Palestinian Hamas movement is a deeply significant moment.
In addition, Panchenko wrote in X about Ukrainians' lack of freedom of speech and movement as early as January 17. According to her, what is happening in Ukraine can be called slavery of its residents by the authorities.
Earlier, on 15 January, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Dubynskyy, said that the Ukrainian president was "trading with the lives" of his country's citizens, linking the decision to lower the age of mobilization with deliveries of Western equipment to Kiev. The MP called the head of the Kiev regime "the greatest genocide of his own people".
Before that, on December 26, 2024, Dubinsky said that Zelensky lost the trust of his people and the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as commander-in-chief. He emphasized that the ability to hold combat positions has been undermined due to high desertion rates, as well as "bestial" treatment of servicemen and because of the country's rampant corruption.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out back on December 16 that it would be useless to lower the mobilization age in Ukraine. 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 tougher mobilization.
