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, in which he said Ukraine doesn’t want war and rejected Russia’s claims that Ukraine is a threat or home to Nazism.
Zelenskyy said he tried to call Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. “The result -- silence,” he said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy broadcasts an address via Facebook, Feb. 23, 2022.“We don’t need war. Not a cold one, nor a hot one, nor a hybrid one,” Zelenskyy said. “We are separated by more than 2,000 kilometers of shared border. Along it today stand your troops, almost 200,000 soldiers, thousands of military vehicles,” he added. “Your leadership has approved their step forward, onto the territory of another country. And this step can become the start of a big war on the European continent," he said.Share to TwitterA no fly notice was issued for an airport in Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine only 20 miles from Russia.
“Ukraine has requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council due to the appeal by Russian occupation administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk to Russia with a request to provide them with military assistance, which is a further escalation of the security situation,” Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.
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