Zelenskyy Responds to Putin’s Claims of Neo-Nazis in Ukrainian Government: ‘He Might Be Capable of Very Horrendous Steps’ (Video)

“This is a laughable statement for me, but then a strike of fear resurfaces,” the Ukrainian president told CNN. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that the Ukrainian government is full of neo-Nazis on CNN on Sunday. Speaking with Fareed Zakaria, Zelenskyy was asked to respond to Putin’s claims about neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian government. “Well there are rare occasions when I smile and when I laugh, and for me to hear it, it’s as if something similar to a joke,” Zelenskyy told CNN through an interpreter. “I cannot take this seriously. Upon hearing the statements at first, you just think to yourself that this person has been in a leadership position for so many years and this person is supposed to have a very clear understanding of what Ukrainian people are because of the Soviet legacy. But I think that currently Putin is an information bubble. I think this is information bunker. And it is so powerful, this bunker of information, that he really thinks that Ukrainians are neo-Nazis. So this is a laughable statement for me, but then a strike of fear resurfaces.” (…) “If he thinks that this is his mission to conquer our territories and if he sees signs of neo-Nazism in our country, then many questions emerge about what else he is capable of doing for the sake of his ambitions and for the sake of his mission. So this gives arise to a feeling which is not very pleasant, which is very frightening and very hazardous. That it can be an information bubble which will continue to exert pressure, and it will pressurize Putin to further escalation.”

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