I carry a pistol, would have fought to lack of life if Russians stormed my office: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

By India Today World Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (native time) revealed that he carries a pistol with him and acknowledged he would have fought to the lack of life if the Russians had mounted an assault on his office in Kyiv firstly of the warfare.

In an interview with 1+1 television channel, Zelenskyy acknowledged he knew the fitting technique to shoot and asserted it is going to be a disgrace if the Russians captured him.

“I know how to shoot. Can you imagine (a headline like) ‘The President of Ukraine is taken captive by Russians?’ This is a disgrace. I believe this would be a disgrace,” Reuters quoted Zelenskyy as saying to the TV channel.

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During the preliminary ranges of the warfare, Russian intelligence objects had tried to assault Kyiv, nevertheless Ukrainian forces defeated them following their failure to advance to Bankova Street, dwelling to the presidential workplaces, acknowledged Ukrainian officers.

While completely different Russian objects mounted an assault on the outskirts of Kyiv, that they had been, nonetheless, unable to proceed inside the coronary coronary heart of the city. According to officers, there have been a lot of unsuccessful sabotage makes an try inside Kyiv.

“I think if they had gone inside, into the administration, we would not be here,” Zelenskyy acknowledged. He, nonetheless, did not specify which Russian objects he was talking about.

“No one would have been taken prisoner because we had a very seriously prepared defence of Bankova Street. We would have been there to the last,” he acknowledged.

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The Ukrainian President moreover rejected a suggestion that he most popular taking his life comparatively than being captured by Russian forces.

“No, no, no. It’s not (to shoot) myself. To shoot back, surely,” he acknowledged.

Zelenskyy’s interview obtained right here a day after Russian forces launched the first large-scale air strikes in Ukraine in virtually two months, killing 25 people, along with 4 children.

On February 24 closing yr, Russia invaded Ukraine, claiming the Zelenskyy authorities in Kyiv posed a menace. Ukraine has condemned the invasion and termed it an unprovoked warfare of conquest.