Note: Updated to include claim by Ukrainian MP Ilya Kiva that Zelensky has left.
The media is not there to carry the water for the Biden Administration. They should be asking questions.
If you care about the Ukrainian people then you have to be asking the tough questions right now. Where is their leadership? Do we have proof? Are the citizens being conscripted against their will? Are the reports contrary to mainstream reporting credible? Are dissenters being taken away? Are people who try to run away being “shot on sight” as has been claimed elsewhere? Are they hiding behind civilians? Did they try to create an accident at a nuclear power plant to generate an optic of horrific Russian brutality? What a terrifying thought!!!
We should not accept unthinkingly the word of anyone. But we need to be more critical here. Imagine that Trump had been elected and done what Biden did. The media would be all over him.
First we hear that he is digging in.
Then that he is hiding.
Then we hear that his home has been attacked.
Then we hear that he is working in the office.
Meanwhile, Russia says he has left Ukraine and the video is staged.
Here are some visuals from the last week:
February 25, 2022: “I am staying in the government quarters together with the others.”
“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who refused the United States’ evacuation offer, is seen next to government officials in Kyiv on Feb. 25, 2022.”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-declines-us-evacuation-offer/
February 26, 2022: “I need ammunition, not a ride.”
““The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelensky said, The Associated Press reported, citing a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation.”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-declines-us-evacuation-offer/
February 26, 2022: Standing Outside In Kyiv
“Mr Zelensky this morning shared another defiant video message confirming he was still in the capital, standing openly in the streets of the city.”
https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-rejects-us-evacuation-russia-1485987
March 1, 2022: “Underground bunker,” Kiev (CNN):
March 1, 2022, CNN coverage, virtual speech to EU:
March 2, 2022: Bunker (The Sun [UK])
March 2, 2022: “Press Conference In Kyiv” (The Times [UK]
“President Zelensky at a press conference in Kyiv yesterday. He has began giving updates from nondescript locations rather than outside landmarks as before.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-survives-three-assassination-attempts-in-days-xnstdfdfc
“Yesterday” = March 2 as the article was published on March 3.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-survives-three-assassination-attempts-in-days-xnstdfdfc
March 3, 2022: “Volodomyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days”
The very next day…he goes back to his office?
March 4, 2022: “’Missed’: Zelensky taunts Russia with image of apparent missile part near his presidential residence in Kyiv”
“Press secretary Sergii Nykyforov posted on Facebook on Friday that an apparent piece of a missile was found near the presidential residence in Koncha Zaspa, Kyiv….Nykyforov’s post didn’t include photos of any other pieces of the purported missile, or of a point of impact.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/zelensky-taunts-russia-photo-missile-piece-near-presidential-residence-2022-3
March 4, 2022: “I’m at work, working. No one has escaped anywhere” (Instagram)
March 4: Counterclaims
1. Ilya Kiva, Member of Parliament, Ukraine
“I have just got confirmation that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Army, President Zelensky, left Ukraine today. He is currently safe at the American Embassy in Poland. He will be sending his commands to the army and the population from there. Absurd commands that cost thousands of lives. Remember, while you are rotting in the earth they will be collecting their rewards and money
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SoEgBjVIkdby/
See also:
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “urgently” left Kiev for Poland following the Russian military operation in Ukraine last week, according to Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Ilya Kiva.
The lawmaker claimed that Zelensky is hiding in the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland’s capital, the Sputnik news agency reported on Friday.
“‘This is where he is set to continue to utilize the Ukrainian Army and civilians while making insane orders that cost thousands of human lives”, Kiva said in a video message on his Telegram channel.”
https://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i167928-zelensky_fled_to_poland_and_is_’hiding_in_us_embassy_%E2%80%99_ukrainian_lawmaker_claims
Here is the original video, from Telegram, and a screenshot.
2. Vyacheslav Volodin, State Duma Speaker (essentially a leading member of the Russian Parliament)
“MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) – State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said citing Verkhovna Rada members that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Poland.
“….On February 26, Volodin said, also citing Verkhovna Rada members, that Zelensky had left Kyiv and was in Lviv. He said that the Ukrainian president’s videos from Kyiv posted on social networks were recorded in advance.”
https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/75499/
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Citizens Shot For Trying To Leave
Jim Stone: “ZALENSKY HAS ORDERED ALL PEOPLE FLEEING UKRAINE SHOT ON SIGHT WITHOUT EVEN QUESTIONING WHO THEY ARE.”
Stone has posted video.
By Dr. Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal. All opinions are the author’s own. Public domain.
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