The Insider reports:
Russian President Vladimir Putin falsely described Ukraine’s government as a “band of junkies and neo-Nazis” in a television appearance on Friday.
In the speech, Putin also said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government “took control of Kyiv and holds the whole people of Ukraine hostage.”
Putin urged members of Ukraine’s armed forces to prevent “neo-Nazis” from using “your children, your wives and parents as a living shield.” The baseless comparison to Nazi Germany is not a first for Putin.
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#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on the Ukrainian army to overthrow the country’s leadership whom he described in a televised address as “terrorists” and “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” pic.twitter.com/eFTPYcoO5n
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 25, 2022
Putin tells Ukrainian soldiers to “take power into your own hands” and not to let “drug addicts and neo nationalists use your families as human shields.” Clear that he has lost the plot. And thousands will suffer as a result. pic.twitter.com/jAj9cTT1dC
— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) February 25, 2022