Russia will not receive new territory, but equates itself with the self-proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR" – Zelenskyy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declares that Russia, trying to "annex" the occupied territories of Ukraine, equates itself with the so-called "DPR" [self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic] and "LPR" [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic].
Source: President's evening video address
Quote from Zelenskyy: "Russia will not receive new territory in Ukraine. Russia will annex itself to the disaster that it brought to the occupied territory belonging to our country. Russia will equate itself with the so-called "DPR" and "LPR", [and] will completely destroy those institutions of normal statehood which are still left in Russia.
The occupier is filling the captured territory of Ukraine with graves, and there are more and more graves on the territory of Russia itself. The occupier is setting up torture chambers in the occupied territory - and will fill the entire territory of Russia with torture chambers. This is the only way the Russian police and the Russian secret services will work now.
The law in Russia has been obliterated. And those who brought all these deaths, [and] rape from Russia will take them home."
Details: According to Zelenskyy, the price of "one person in Russia wanting to continue this war will be that the entire Russian society will be left without a normal economy, without a decent life and without respect for any human values."
The president emphasised that this could still be stopped.
"But in order to stop it, you have to stop the one in Russia who wants war more than life. Your life, citizens of Russia," he said.
Zelenskyy addressed the Russians in Russian. The rest of the president's video address was in Ukrainian.
Previously:
- On Thursday, the Kremlin said that the ceremony of "signing agreements on the accession of new territories to the Russian Federation" would take place on Friday.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine for Friday, 30 September, where important decisions are planned to be announced.
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