Invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is undertaking a “special military operation” in Ukraine with the goal to demilitarize and denazify the country but not occupy it – this is his justification for the war.
In his address Putin said: “Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide for the last eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.”
Putin has been making Nazi claims against Ukraine since at least 2014. How he came about this claim is what baffles Ukrainians and the rest of the world. Only Russia media portray Ukraine as being aligned with Nazism.
There is no reason to denazify Ukraine when they are not Neo-Nazis.
U.K President, Zelensky is Jewish. Hours before Putin’s address announcing the invasion, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered his own address, pleading for peace and pushing back against Putin’s repeated accusations that Ukraine is aligned with Nazism.
“The Ukraine on your news and Ukraine in real life are two completely different countries — and the main difference between them is: Ours is real. You are told we are Nazis. But could a people who lost more than 8 million lives in the battle against Nazism support Nazism?”
Zelensky asked, addressing the charges directly in Russian.
In the address, the Ukrainian president mentioned his personal connection to the Holocaust.
“How can I be a Nazi? Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army, and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine.”
History has it that three of Zelensky’s grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust and Zelensky has been outspoken about his Jewish identity so far. Between May and August 2019, Ukraine was the only country other than Israel to have both a Jewish head of government – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman – and a Jewish head of state, President Zelensky.
This would never happened if Ukraine is really a Nazi state. Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are not real. Vladimir Putin is faking it – it is a strategy of war employed by Russian federation.
