Zelenskyy: Ukraine only Russia’s first target, other countries still to come 

OLENA ROSHCHINA – WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 2022, 17:19

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has claimed that Russia has deported two million people from Ukraine, and that this is part of its tactics.

Source: Zelenskyy in his video address at the Asian Leadership Conference, held in Seoul

Details: Zelenskyy claimed that Ukraine became Russia’s first target. Russia is now planning to invade other countries of Europe and Asia – such is its strategy – and its tactic is terror.

Russia’s tactic has various steps: 1) artillery holds whole cities hostage; 2) missile terror to drive people out of the cities; 3) deportation; 4) economic shock as a result of Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports and the energy crisis; 5) propaganda.

Quote: "The third step is deportation. Just imagine this number: 2 million people. This is the number of our people who have already been deported to Russia. There are hundreds of deported children, and nobody knows the exact numbers.

All deported people are stripped of their means of communication, their documents; they are intimidated and taken to remote areas of Russia so it will be harder for them to return to their Motherland.

How will we then take our people back from the areas they have been deported to?

Moreover, Russia has forcibly created so-called filtration camps and now sends our people from the occupied territories there.

Tens of thousands of people remain there, young women go missing there. I think you all know what happens to them there."

Details: Zelenskyy believes that the world must harshly punish the occupiers even for mere attempts to deport people or block ports, and react to the dissemination of lies in the media space.

The President has stated that this Russian tactic must not become "the global norm", and that the world order must be re-established.

He added that when Ukraine asks its partners for armaments and sanctions against the aggressor state, it does not do so only for its own good.

"It’s the same as with a vaccine: if you don’t help other nations, then you must be ready for new virus strains to appear, which will make your own protection ineffective," – Zelenskyy claimed.