Zelenskyy appeals to Russians: Protest or surrender

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has addressed the Russians regarding mobilization for the war against Ukraine and urged them to protest or surrender, Report informs citing UNIAN.

“When Russia claims that it wants negotiations, but itself announces mobilization... When Russia knows Ukraine’s clear position about the impossibility of a diplomatic process after Russia holds any pseudo-referenda... Everything is clear to everyone. Russia itself hides the prospect of negotiations with its own hands,” Zelenskyy said in a video message.

He addressed the Russians in Russian language.

“Protests against mobilization took place in the cities of Russia. And even if not massive, but they were. And there are. And this is an indicator. Not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We know the real mood in the regions of Russia. We see that people in Dagestan, in Buryatia, in other national republics and regions of Russia, they understand that they were simply thrown to war. They were thrown to death,” the president said.

Zelenskyy asked why, for example, Dagestanis ‘should die in the Kharkiv region or near Donetsk.’

“Yes, because one person in Russia decided so - for all the citizens of Russia. There is no other reason. That’s what he wants,” he added.

Addressing the Russians, Zelenskyy stressed that they ‘are already accomplices in all these crimes, murders and torture of Ukrainians.’