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"Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday predicted Russia would “wage war against Nato”
if the US stepped back from its support of Ukraine – and that he had seen
intelligence suggesting that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, was building
up troops for a possible military invasion of another European country.
The Ukrainian president made the claim on the NBC show
Meet the Press in a
wide-ranging interview ahead of an emergency summit of European leaders in
Paris to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine – and peace talks between US and
Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.
“It can happen in summer, maybe in the beginning, maybe in the end of summer. I
do not know when he prepares it,” Zelenskyy said. “But it will happen. And at
that moment, knowing that he did not succeed in occupying us, we do not know
where he will go.”
Zelenskyy added that he believed Putin’s next targets could be Poland and
Lithuania – which were occupied during the second world war by Nazi Germany and
the Soviet Union – “because we believe that [Russian president] Putin will wage
war against Nato”, the international military alliance formally known as the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Zelenskyy said he had viewed documents indicating that Putin was “preparing to
train 150,000 people” in Belarus, a staunch ally of Moscow – and that he had
shared that intelligence with allies.
The Russian leader, Zelenskyy said, wanted to “show it for the world that it is
just training” and would claim “that these are exercises that are always
ongoing” in Belarus.
“But it’s not truth,” Zelenskyy said. “From such point, he began the occupation
[of Ukraine] three years ago. Full-scale war he began from some symbolic
trainings. The missiles the first night flew from Belarus, and the invasion
came from Belarus.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
