As the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country approaches 2 million, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounces what he calls the West’s broken “promises.”
Zelenskiy blamed the West for the current situation in war-stricken Ukraine. He criticised the West for not protecting Ukraine from Russian attacks as it had promised.
On a telegram video broadcast, Zelenskiy said,
“It’s been 13 days we’ve been hearing promises, 13 days we’ve been told we’ll be helped in the air, that there will be planes, that they will be delivered to us.”
“But the responsibility for that rests also on those who were not capable to take a decision in the West for 13 days,”
the Ukrainian President added.
“On those who have not secured the Ukrainian skies from the Russian assassins,”
he went on to say condemning the Western nations for not sending the ammunition.
2 million nationals flee Ukraine
The statement came from the Ukrainian President as the UN reported the displacement of more than two million people from Ukraine.
The United Nations claims that it is the fastest exodus in Europe since World War 2.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Fillipo Grandi, told on Twitter that 2 million refugees have fled their war hit homeland.
Earlier, Grandi, at a press conference, said that the number of displaced refugees was “maybe two to three million people, but over a period of eight years” during the Balkan Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. The UN High Commissioner made a comparison to the current situation in Ukraine.
He added that while other regions of the world have faced such a situation before, “in Europe it’s the first time since the Second World War.”
Within the Ukrainian border area, there is an unknown number of people who have been displaced. The report comes as the evacuation of citizens through humanitarian corridors in Sumy begins.
As per reports from Reuters and Ifax news agencies, while showing concern about the present situation, Russia’s foreign ministry, on Tuesday, tweeted that in order to coexist in peace, Moscow and Washington should return to cold war relationships.
They should follow the principle of co-existence as they did during the second half of the 20th century.
Edited By- Subbuthai Padma
Published By- Satheesh Kumar
