Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 1st stated that he has not left the country’s capital Kiev due to the ongoing Russian military operation in Ukraine to “demilitarise and de-Nazify” the country.
Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Ilya Kiva claimed that the president “urgently” left for Poland and is hiding in the US Embassy there.
“This is where he is set to continue to utilise the Ukrainian Army and civilians while making insane orders that cost thousands of human lives“, Kiva said in a video message on his Telegram channel.
Neither the Ukrainian president nor the US Embassy in Poland have commented on his claims.Earlier, Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin also asserted that Zelensky fled Ukraine and headed to Poland.
“Zelensky left Ukraine. Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada said that they could not get to him in Lvov“, he wrote on his Telegram channel. “He is now in Poland“.
Reports that Zelensky left the Ukrainian capital emerged earlier last week, with the president refuting them and posting several video messages in which he said he remained in Kiev.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians for the most part have fled the country…