Zelensky at NATO PA: Evil against Ukraine and Israel is the same

He said this in his online speech at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly session, Ukrinform reports.

“These days, our attention is focused on the Middle East. No one can ever forget what the terrorists did in Israel… Thousands of missiles against peaceful cities. Shooting people in cars on the roads. Men, women, children. No one was spared. Streets covered in blood. Hostages… The terrorists themselves gave the world footage of the atrocities, and were proud of them. Women who were beaten. Elderly people who were kidnapped from their homes. Abducted children. And we do not yet know how many people were captured and brutally taken away by the terrorists… They even tried to humiliate the dead by mocking their bodies,” Zelensky said.

He stressed that the Israelis themselves – Israeli journalists who were in Ukraine, in Bucha, are now saying that they saw the same evil where Russia came.

“The same evil, and the only difference is that there is a terrorist organization that attacked Israel, and here is a terrorist state that attacked Ukraine… The intentions declared are different, but the essence is the same… You see it… You see the same blood on the streets. You see the same civilian cars shot up. You see the same bodies of people who have been tortured,” the President stressed.

According to him, three most dangerous are two things. First: the shocking joy of state-backed Russian propagandists, who call children who are now being held hostage by terrorists in Gaza as “trophies”. And the second is backing of what is going on.

Zelensky said that Iran can’t say it has nothing to do with what is going on in Ukraine if it sells Shahed UAVs to Russia. Iran can’t say it has nothing to do with what is going on in Israel if its officials claim the support of what is going on in Israel.

“We see who in the world is trying to replace the power of international law with the horror of blood and disasters. We see whose deliberate investments in terror are destroying the lives of different peoples in a vast area from Belarus to Mali. We see this. And we must act. United!” he emphasized.

As reported, on the morning of October 7, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Militants broke into the territory of the country, delivering a massive missile strike.

More than 700 people were killed in Hamas attacks in Israel. Among those killed are citizens of Ukraine.

Israel officially declared a state of war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.