Speaking on Ukraine’s Independence Day President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is showing their citizens how they do “abandon” their citizens.
Speaking to the Moscow Times a woman called Anna described her anger towards Kremlin officials over being left alone in the Kursk region following Ukraine’s incursion.
“How are the authorities solving people’s problems? They just lie, saying there’s no need to panic,” Anna, 28, told The Moscow Times.
“Among my acquaintances who have been affected in one way or another, everyone is shocked by the officials — they don’t f**king care about people.”
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She added, “People are of no concern to anyone.”
She continued, “The rhetoric from the other extreme: ‘We’ve sat in basements, now it’s your turn.’ How are these pro-Ukrainian bulls***ters any better than those supporting this crap from the Russian side?” said Anna.
“Do they think that a victim can’t become an aggressor?”
Residents have said that officials are not responsive to the situation on the ground and they are questioning the lack of Russian troops defending their territory and their incompetence.
Svetlana, 32 told the Moscow Times, “How could they [Russia] have missed the buildup of such a large number of Ukrainian troops at the border?”
Victoria, 26, a volunteer for the Kursk Red Cross, told the publication she does not feel anger towards Ukraine, as they “are also just hostages of the situation.”
President Zelensky said on Saturday that Russian is now showing how they treat their citizens, how it “doesn’t abandon” its citizens.
He said, “Ukraine astonishes once again. Russia reverts once again to its repertoire. This is how the world media generally portray the events in the Kursk region. They show how Russia treats its citizens, whom it calls ‘the population.’
“How Russia ‘does not abandon’ their own. How their soldiers loot their local shops. This is what Putin’s Russia looks like in the eyes of the world.
“And in the same way, the entire world sees how our warriors provide water, food, and medicine to the local people, who say: ‘It’s good that you are here now, not the Kadyrovites.’ This is what Ukraine’s dignity looks like. Civility. The virtue of our independence.”
