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Moscow switched to strikes on Ukrainian cities on Tuesday and
appeared poised for an advance on Kyiv as the West tightened an
economic noose around Russia in retaliation.
But Zelenskiy, unshaven and wearing a khaki T-shirt, said the
West's response was not enough, calling for more international
support, including backing Ukraine's bid to join the European
Union.
"This is no time to be neutral," said Zelenskiy, whose defiant
and emotional tone in regular video addresses have offered his
country support and leadership in the war, which he said killed
nearly 6,000 Russian troops so far.
Referring to the Tuesday shelling in Kyiv next to Babyn Yar -
the site of a World War Two massacre of tens of thousands of
Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries -
Zelenskiy said: "This strike proves that for many people in
Russia our Kyiv is absolutely foreign."
"They don't know a thing about Kyiv, about our history. But they
all have orders to erase our history, erase our country, erase
us all."
Ukraine's south-eastern Azov Sea port of Mariupol was under
constant shelling and unable to evacuate the injured while
Kherson, on the Black Sea to the west, was completely surrounded
by invading Russian forces, local authorities said on Wednesday.
"We all died again by Babyn Yar. Although the world has promised
again and again that it will never happen again," said Zelenskiy.
"Don't you see what is happening? That's why it is very
important now that you, millions of Jews around the world, do
not stay silent. Because Nazism is born in silence. Scream about
murdering of civilians, scream about murdering of Ukrainians."
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk, Writing by
Gabriela Baczynska, Editing by Andrew Heavens and Philippa
Fletcher)
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