Ukrainian president’s comments come as thousands of Russians flee Crimea after strikes on peninsula
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said that panicking Russians have realised that Crimea is “not a place for them” after three mysterious and devastating strikes on the peninsula over the past week, thought to have been carried out by Ukrainian operatives.
The mass exit came after an ammunition dump and electricity sub-station blew up near the town of Dzhankoi, a significant railway hub. Another apparent Ukrainian strike took place outside the regional capital Simferopol, where a Russian airbase was destroyed.Crimea These might also explode because of “bungling”, he added, describing his country’s struggle against Russian occupiers as a “people’s war of liberation”. Millions of Ukrainians were fighting against a “terrorist state”, he added.
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