Russian troops were accused of slaughtering Ukrainian civilians waiting at a bus stop today during a major speech by Vladimir Putin to Moscow’s elite, in which he claimed the West was to blame for his on-going invasion.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said several missiles fired by Russia’s military struck civilian targets in attacks on the southern city of Kherson.
He accused the Russia of ‘mercilessly killing the civilian population’ of Ukraine as his Russian counterpart delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address to lawmakers in a rambling two-hour long speech.
Among his claims, Putin said: ‘The responsibility for fuelling the Ukrainian conflict, for its escalation, for the number of victims… lies completely with Western elites.’ The US called the speech ‘absurd’ while Kyiv said Putin was in a ‘different reality’.
Zelensky issued his own rebuttal in a post on Instagram, posting pictures of the aftermath of Russia’s strikes in Kherson. ‘The world cannot forget for…
