Tuesday April 12, 2022
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday April 12, 2022
Zelenskyy says Ukraine is defending its basic human rights
“We are defending the ability for a person to live in the modern world,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.
March 1, 2022
In an interview taped Wednesday in Kyiv, Zelenskyy told Pelley his country remains united because it has no other choice.
“We united as a nation” Zelenskyy said to Pelley, speaking through an interpreter. “The weakest people became strong. The strong people became the strongest, most powerful, so powerful that nobody could have outdone them. In this way, our nation of strong and weak people has transformed into one solid, strong force. And one strong community.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 with 73% of the vote. He told Pelley he was urged by multiple people leave the country at the start of the war but chose to stay.
“Before I do something, I analyze the situation. I’ve always done it calmly, without any chaos,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter. “I might not be the strongest warrior. But not I’m willing to betray anyone.”