Zelensky Compares Putin to Hitler

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. He stated that Putin's proposed peace agreement has nothing new and is reminiscent of the promises made by Hitler before World War II.

In 2019, at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky met.
On Saturday, June 15, Sky News reported this comparison made by Zelensky.

On Friday, Putin suddenly announced new demands to end the war in Ukraine, including three conditions: withdrawal of Ukrainian troops, abandonment of aspirations to join NATO, among others. Putin said in front of ambassadors at the Russian Foreign Ministry,

"Our position is clear. The moment Kyiv declares that it will withdraw troops from the four provinces and no longer attempt to join NATO, we will be ready to start peace talks and prepare for a ceasefire in Ukraine."

In response, President Zelensky told Sky Italia,

"Putin repeatedly says he will take some of our regions. Some of these regions are already occupied, and some are not. He (Putin) says he will stop afterward and that the war will not continue in its current state. This is the kind of thing Hitler used to say."

Pointing towards Hitler, Zelensky said, "He used to say, give me a part of Czechoslovakia, and the war will end, but he was just lying. Because after that, he demanded a part of Poland, and then he took over the whole of Europe."

Comparing Putin to Hitler, the Ukrainian President further stated,

"This is the nature of Nazism, and this is why we cannot trust Putin because he is following the same path." Zelensky added, "People should remember that before the war, Russia only claimed Crimea and the Donbas regions, but now it is expanding its territorial claims