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Ukraine President Zelenskyy warns of dire consequences if his country falls: WWIII ‘may have already started’
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that World Conflict III might have already began when Russian troops invaded his nation and that “civilization is at stake” throughout an American TV interview hours after addressing Congress Wednesday.
“No one is aware of whether or not it might have already began,” he instructed NBC Information’ Lester Holt. “And what’s the opportunity of this conflict if Ukraine will fall, in case Ukraine will? It’s extremely onerous to say…We have seen this 80 years in the past, when the Second World Conflict had began…no person would have the ability to predict when the full-scale conflict would begin.”
Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24 – launching what analysts initially predicted can be a fast conflict to oust Zelenskyy’s authorities and change it with Kremlin-friendly puppets.
On this picture from video offered by the Home Tv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, as he addresses nearly addresses Congress on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.
(Home Tv through AP)
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Western leaders, together with on the prime of the U.S. and NATO, have publicly acknowledged they’d not get militarily concerned on Ukrainian soil out of concern it might provoke Russia to escalate the battle and begin World Conflict III.
In the meantime, Ukraine’s protection forces refused to let the Russians stroll over them, placing up fierce resistance and slowing the invaders to a halt three weeks into the invasion. Russia’s air pressure, bigger, newer and superior by most metrics, has failed to attain air superiority, and Ukrainian protection forces declare to have taken out a number of Russian generals and greater than 12,000 troops.
The demise toll couldn’t be independently confirmed, and Russia mentioned earlier this month it had misplaced solely a small fraction of that whole.
Zelenskyy and different Ukrainian officers for weeks have been warning that an assault on their nation is an assault and Europe, interesting for extra assist and suggesting that Putin’s ambitions prolong past conquering his smaller neighbor.
As Russian forces have additionally didn’t take Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, they’re stepping up assaults on civilian targets, together with a maternity hospital and a makeshift shelter holding an estimated 1,000 civilians in a theater, each within the besieged metropolis of Mariupol.
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Earlier Wednesday, Zelenskyy addressed each chambers of the U.S. Congress, asking for elevated navy support and reiterating his name for a no-fly zone.
“Bear in mind Pearl Harbor, [the] horrible morning of Dec. 7, 1941 when your sky was black from planes attacking you,” he mentioned, by a translator. “Bear in mind Sept. 11, a horrible day in 2001 when evil tried to show U.S. cities…right into a battlefield. Harmless individuals have been attacked from the air….Our nation experiences the identical each day, proper now.”
President Biden introduced one other $1 billion in defensive support to Ukraine Wednesday and went so far as to name Putin a “conflict prison,” however his administration has resisted Zelenskyy’s requires a no-fly zone over Ukrainian skies, which NATO officers say would put the U.S.-led alliance in direct navy battle with Russia.
Fox Information’ Michael Lee and Greg Norman contributed to this report.