NATO yet to show what it can do to save people: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

TIL Desk/World/Kyiv/In a virtual address to the European Council summit in Brussels, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the military alliance is “yet to show what it can do to save people” in the wake of Russia’s continued war on Kiev.

In a late night address, Zelensky said that although Ukraine is not part of the 30-member defence alliance and was currently in a “grey zone between the West and Russia”, yet “we defend our common values”. “And being in a grey zone, we are enlightened people, just like you! That helps us to defend ourselves for a month.”

As the war completed 30 days on Thursday, the President said it had been “month of heroic resistance, a month of the darkest suffering. A month, when Russia enjoyed impunity for the destruction of the peaceful state, along with it the whole global security architecture”.

He accused Russia of “investing absurd amounts of money in death, while the world invested in life”. Zelensky went on to thank Europe for uniting in their support for Ukraine, saying that three and a half million of the people who fled Ukraine are “already in the territory of NATO countries”.