Last night’s installment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s long-running television series—that is, his nightly message to the nation—featured a paean to Boris Johnson and to Ukraine’s love affair with Great Britain: “And I want to emphasize: even before February 24, we always felt that Britain stood with Ukraine. In a few years, we really managed to bring Ukrainian-British relations to the highest level throughout the entire time of our independence.”
Then, he renewed his completely evidence-free assertion that Russia had destroyed the power line to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant (ZNPP). Actually, it is not so much that it is evidence-free, as Zelensky disdains the idea of offering any evidence.
Zelensky continued: “Shelling the territory of the ZNPP means that the terrorist state does not care what the IAEA says, it does not care what the international community decides. Russia is interested only in keeping the situation the worst for the longest time possible. This can be corrected only by strengthening sanctions, only by officially recognizing Russia as a terrorist state—at all levels.” One can only wonder, if he would take a breath and explain why the Russians are firing upon themselves, or if the remnants of the American shells at the ZNPP were shown to him, would he call for declaring Ukraine a terrorist state? Regardless, his previous television series was more entertaining.
