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Kyiv Mayor to "Israel Today": "Putin will pay a huge price" | Israel today

2022-03-09T21:27:42.563Z


The besieged mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, told Israel Today: "What is happening is a catastrophe not only for Ukraine - but also for Europe" • Special


The besieged mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, is a tough guy, a boxer who was several times the world heavyweight champion.

Today he is fighting the battle of his life against the Russian giant: from his office in the Ukrainian capital he shared "Israel Day" details about the situation and sent a message to the president in Moscow: "You were wrong, and you will pay a painful price for it."

"We hear alarms ten or twenty times a day, and we have residents who have been in shelters for two weeks. A huge part of our citizens did not imagine that they were going to carry weapons: doctors, musicians, actors. They changed into uniform, ready to defend the city and the country," Klitschko said. (50) In one of the few free moments he has between shelling and management of a beer under siege.

Klitschko knows that his time is limited and that he may be living on borrowed time, but he maintains optimism and seems to have practiced all his life for this moment.

"This is a challenging task, but we are not giving up. The Russians want to steal our future and make us slaves. Ukraine has always been a state of peace, and now we must defend ourselves," he stressed.

"The reason for the war is very simple. We had an idea to be part of the European family. We wanted to build a modern and democratic state, but Putin sees Ukraine as part of the Russian Empire."

Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko,

One of the grave concerns is about Russian spies, who may be hiding and surprisingly revealed at the top of Ukraine, as happened a few days ago with Dennis Kirib, a member of the Ukrainian delegation who was found shot - and conflicting versions have emerged about his fate.

Many questions and the threat to spies causes many paranoias.

Meanwhile, despite three rounds of talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, Klitschko does not engage in theory and claims that the ceasefire attempts, as well as the humanitarian corridors, are "Russian propaganda. We have been trying for three or four days to hold the 'humanitarian corridors'. "There is no food and no water. The Russians promise passage - but do nothing."

Klitschko further explains that there is another dimension of intra-Russian propaganda: "Explain to their people that in Ukraine there are Nazis, fascists and radicals, and that Russia protects the people of Ukraine. In practice, what is happening now is that the Russians are destroying buildings and killing civilians. "The 10,000. We have no way to measure, millions have left home. This is a catastrophe not only for Ukraine but also for Europe."

At the end of his speech, Klitschko says that "Russia played as a society of the world, but it is the same pattern of the Soviet empire. Putin has a Soviet mentality and is a former KGB officer." Huge of the Russians and Ukrainians.

It is a vision from the past.

Soviet times are not. "

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Source: israelhayom

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