“I am staying in Kyiv,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy says from his presidential office.
In a video posted last night on the website of the Ukrainian presidency, Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in his presidential office in Kyiv.
“I stay in Kyiv (…) and do not hide. And I’m not afraid of anyone,” he says during this video segment, which begins with a plan of Kyiv taken from the window of the presidential house to prove its location.
The Ukrainian president joins his cabinet for a nearly nine-minute speech in which he accuses Russia of preventing the evacuation of civilians on Monday.
“There was an agreement on humanitarian corridors. Did it work? Russian Grad tanks operated instead. [lance-roquettes multiples] Russian mines, Russian mines,” he condemns.
The President of Ukraine said that Russian troops “mined the agreed route for the delivery of food and medicine” to the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, accusing them of “destroying buses to evacuate civilians from war zones.” “They make sure that a small corridor to the occupied territory is opened, for several dozen people. Not so much to Russia, but to propagandists, directly to television cameras,” Zelensky continued, accusing Moscow of “cynicism.”
However, the Ukrainian president said that Kyiv would continue negotiations with Russia until a peace agreement was found.
Here is the sequence in question below and the English translation of the speech at this link: