Ukraine stressed that the annexation, announced by Moscow on Friday, will not alter its military goals of ultimately freeing all territory from Russian control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of several Ukrainian regions this week is being compared to Adolf Hitler seizing parts of Europe before and at the onset of World War II.
« The parallels are eerie and, after decades of over-using the Hitler analogies, we finally have a case where they are apt, » Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and current Atlantic Council researcher, was quoted by Politico.
Fried is not the only figure drawing « parallels » between the actions of Putin and Hitler. Sergiy Kyslytsya, who serves as the permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, shared a video with a caption that referred to Putin’s annexation speech on Friday, but actually showed Hitler addressing a large crowd of his supporters.
« Oops! Wrong annexation video but good [thing] that Putler’s finale will be the same as of Hitler, » Kyslytsya wrote, referring to Putin in a combination of his and Hitler’s names.
