Zelenskyy Aide Says Serbs Should Not Believe Myth that Russia Is fighting NATO in Ukraine

Mykhailo Podolyak (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)

Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak has said that Serbs should not believe the myth that Russia is waging war on NATO and the U.S. in Ukraine and that they should put themselves in the shoes of the Ukrainians who were suffering as a result of the Russian invasion.

"The Serbs should not believe myths, but put themselves in the shoes of Ukraine's citizens. No one from the U.S. or NATO is even close to the homes of those being bombarded. I think that an ordinary man cannot live in geopolitics, but must understand concrete words, and the concrete situation is that the war is only in Ukrainian territory, where 1,000 settlements have been destroyed," Podolyak told Serbian reporters in Kyiv.

In his office in the Ukrainian presidency which became his new home where he works, spends time and sleeps on Feb. 28., Podolyak told Serbian journalists that during six months 23,000 civilian facilities were targeted as opposed to only 320 military targets.

Ukraine, Podolyak said, is being supplied with weapons by its partners, but the amount of weaponry that Russia had was ten times higher than in Serbia or Ukraine. He added that even if ten European nations united, Russia still had more weapons. Podolyak said that Serbia "must understand that Ukraine is not at war because it as fighting for territory.