Denys Shmyhal is speaking in President Zelenskiy’s place, after it was reported the Ukrainian president would not give his scheduled address to the Council of Europe, citing “urgent, unforeseen circumstances”.
Ukraine’s prime minister Denys Shmyhal says the world has “finally opened its eyes” to Vladimir Putin’s real intentions and says Russia has violated fundamental rights and freedoms since it invaded Ukraine.
Addressing the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, he says Russian forces are “behaving like terrorists”.
“They bombard schools, kindergartens, hospitals. They kill children. They take hostages.
They kidnap representatives in the local authorities. They torture civilians.”, he said.
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