Russian President Vladimir Putin has killed a million Russians and marches “two million feet” to the slaughter. Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has delivered a scathing rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent claim that “wherever the Russian soldier steps — that land is ours.”
Earlier, US President Donald Trump publicly stated that he believes Putin wants peace. Later, he repeated the same statement, saying he thinks Russia wants to end the war but might be “dragging their feet” on taking decisive action.
Sybiha responded on the social media platform X, calling Putin “a mass murderer of his own people” who has already sent a million Russian soldiers to their deaths in his war against Ukraine.
“Putin does not care about Russian soldiers or their feet torn apart by Ukrainian drones. One million soldiers. Two million feet,” the Ukrainian foreign minister claimed.
He added that Putin’s latest remarks demonstrate total contempt for peace initiatives from the West and the United States.
“While the United States and the rest of the world have called for an immediate end to the killing, Russia’s top war criminal discusses plans to seize more Ukrainian territory and kill more Ukrainians,” he stressed.
According to Sybiha, the Kremlin’s aggression is an attempt to distract Russians from the catastrophe of 25 years of Putin’s rule, a regime that has dragged the country into international isolation.
Sybiha called for a strong international response to bring Moscow back to its senses.
“The only way to force Russia into peace is to deprive it of its sense of impunity. Increase support for Ukraine’s defense and hit the Russian economy hard with devastating sanctions. Designate Russia as a terrorist state. Isolate it fully,” said the Ukrainian foreign minister.
Putin’s speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum marked yet another return to his imperial narrative — the denial of Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign nation.