Zelensky is Now a 'Legitimate Military Target': MEDVEDEV
Zelensky remains in power because he banned elections in Ukraine
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, identified Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a legitimate military target when his presidential term expires on 21 May.
Zelensky remains in power because he banned elections in Ukraine. Recent polling shows he would lose if he faced challengers.
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Medvedev told TASS that Zelensky is a war criminal and said the expiration of the presidential term is simply the “final loss of legitimacy by the pseudo-president of the former Ukraine.”
He said Zelensky was “always considered” a legitimate military target. Medvedev told TASS that Ukrainians who disapprove Zelensky’s policy “may try to kill him like Wehrmacht officers tried to assassinate Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler in 1944,” referring to the failed assassination attempt on Hitler, the report said.
Medvedev said Zelensky “spat on the Constitution of his 'country,' ignored the Constitutional Court, and did not even extend, but usurped the supreme power.”
Zelensky, who was wrapping up his first five-year term, found a loophole in the country’s constitution that states elections cannot be held while under martial law. Zelensky declared martial law on 24 February 2022, the day Russia invaded.
Zelensky, a law-degree-carrying comedian who played the Ukrainian president on a TV show, ran for office in 2019 and vowed to work to clean up the crony capitalism and corruption in Kyiv. The show was called “Servant of the People.”
The act worked and Zelensky, who was 41 in the spring of 2019, carried 73 percent of the vote. But his government was never serious about peace with Russia, and, instead, instigated a war by appeals to the U.S. and NATO and refusal to address grievances in the Donbas.