Zelenskyy: Russia might do something particularly violent next week

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – SATURDAY, 20 AUGUST 2022, 21:36

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine believes that Russia might attempt to carry out particularly violent attacks next week [Ukraine's Independence Day is on 24 August, which falls on next Wednesday – ed.].

Source: President Zelenskyy's video address

Quote from Zelenskyy: "We have to be aware that this [coming] week, Russia may try to do something particularly nasty, particularly cruel. Such is our enemy. But Russia has been doing this every week over these last six months – doing terrible and violent things."

Details: President Zelenskyy recalled that Ukraine would celebrate its Independence Day and the National Flag Day next week. The Crimean Platform summit is also expected to take place next week.

"One can literally feel it in the air in Crimea, the fact that the [peninsula’s] occupation is temporary and that Ukraine is returning," he noted.

Zelenskyy noted that one of Russia’s key goals is to humiliate the people of Ukraine, to undermine their potential and their heroes, and to spread despair, fear, and conflict.

"Therefore it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to the enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness," he urged.

"That’s why we’ve got to stick together, to help one another, to rebuild what’s been destroyed, to fight for all our people. And we cheer for those who represent Ukraine. Today [we will cheer for] [Oleksandr] Usyk [a Ukrainian boxer – ed.], our guy," Zelenskyy said.

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