London, Apr. 4, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia needs to be held responsible for everything it has done in Ukraine.
Addressing a joint sitting of the Irish parliament via a translator, he said: “The fact is that in the 42 days of the all-out Russian war at least 167 children were killed in Ukraine.
“We don’t know yet all the atrocities of Mariupol and the victims in the areas of Ukraine.
“Fighting is still going and the fact is that as a result of Russian shelling 927 educational institutions were damaged, and 258 hospitals were, they even shot at 78 ambulances.
“They were targeting even churches and shelters that they knew for sure that there is nobody but women and children, and this is a fact.
“The country which is doing this is not doesn’t deserve to be in the circle of the civilized countries.
“It should be held responsible for everything they have done on Ukrainian soil, they have come to Ukraine as a colonising army, their state propagandists, their politicians are not even concealing what they want in the 21st century.
“They’re looking at the country of the colonial empire, who allegedly has the right to subdue neighbouring people and destroy the foundations of independence, destroy their identity, everything that makes us Ukrainians.”
GNA