On Monday, 27 June, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited the US to declare Russia a terrorist state.
«This morning I turned to the US with an invitation to declare Russia a terrorist state. A resolution has already been coordinated by the US Senate committee, but the legal decisions is for the [US] Department of State. This decision is clearly needed, and the entire democratic world must support it,» said Zelenskyy in his video address.
He added he told the same to members of the ongoing G7 summit in Germany.
Zelenskyy said Russia has fired nearly 2 800 cruise missiles on Ukraine, adding that the number of bombs and rocket artillery shells is countless.
He said on Monday Russian forces fired on Pivnichna Saltivka district of Kharkiv, killing at least five and injuring more than 30, of which five are children. All of the victims were civilians, he said.
Russian forces also fired missiles on Kremenchuk this Monday, hitting a shopping mall with approximately 1 000 people inside.
According to official information, at least 13 people were killed and 25 were injured.
«The Russian state has become the largest terrorist organization in the world. And this is a fact. And this must be a legal fact. And everyone in the world must know that buying or transporting Russian oil, maintaining contacts with Russian banks, paying taxes and customs duties to the Russian state means giving money to terrorists,» Zelenskyy wrote on his Instagram page.
He said that in his address to members of G7 summit he asked the international community to supply modern missile defence systems. According to him, western partners confirmed Ukraine would receive these systems.
«Even before the full-scale ware had started we told our partners that we need a modern missile defence. We repeated the same after 24 February. The people in the shopping mall in Kremenchuk deserve protection as much as people in any other shopping mall around the world – from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv or the shopping gallery in Dresden. The world can, which means it must stop Russian terror,» stressed the Ukrainian president.