Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

ZELENSKY COMPARES RUSSIA TO NAZI GERMANY AFTER ALLEGED SCHOOL BOMBING

- UKRAINE 8 MAY (COURTESY: HINDUSTAN TIMES/REUTERS)

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Sunday said evil returned to Europe while comparing Russia to Nazi Germany after many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk.

“Evil has returned, in a different uniform, under different slogans, but for the same purpose,” Zelensky said adding Moscow’s army was replicatin­g Nazi “atrocities” and giving justificat­ion that “aims to give this evil a sacred purpose.”. He made the comments during an emotional video address in which he was filmed standing in front of destroyed residentia­l building as the country marked “Victory in Europe Day”.

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