President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for his comments at an annual televised news conference.
“People are dying and he thinks it’s ‘interesting’. . . Fool,” Zelensky posted in “X,” sharing a video of Putin discussing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Zelensky’s comments on Thursday (December 19) followed a call from Putin for a “high-tech duel” over kyiv, pitting Ukrainian air defenses against Russia’s newly developed Oreshnike intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
During his annual televised press conference, Putin had claimed that Russia’s Oreshnik missile is unstoppable by air defenses.
“Let’s call it a high-tech duel of the 21st century. Leave them a place to attack, let’s say in Kiev, concentrate all your air defenses there, and we will attack there with the Oreshnik and see what happens,” Putin said. “It’s interesting. “
At the European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday, Zelensky called the Russian autocrat “crazy.”
“I think Putin is very dangerous, he doesn’t care about human lives,” Zelensky said after his meeting with the leaders of European governments. “He loves to kill. “
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