Ukrainian president faults West of mixing alarm in spite of 'no tanks on roads'

UKRAINE 29 JANUARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday approached the Western legislatures and media to quit energizing frenzy over the Russian troop development.

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Focusing on that Ukraine was not a sinking Titanic, Zelensky tried to quiet feelings of dread and encouraged a finish toward the Western mania about the Russian troop development. He additionally explained that it was not his country that caused the frenzy, blaming Washington and media for energizing a craziness that burdened the economy while there were "no tanks in the roads."

Talking at a news gathering for unfamiliar media, Zelensky said: "There are no tanks in the roads. In any case, media give the impression, on the off chance that one hasn't arrived, that we have a conflict, that we have armed force in the roads... That is not the situation. We needn't bother with this frenzy."

"I don't consider what is happening presently more tense than previously," he said, however added: "I'm not saying an acceleration is absurd."

Zelensky said the excessively Western response had adversely affected the Ukrainian economy and that the greatest danger the nation presently confronted was inward destabilization.

Likewise on late Friday, the Ukrainian president talked on telephone with his French partner Emmanuel Macron and communicated trust that concentrated global exchanges have decreased "the opportunity of acceleration" in Kiev's deadlock with Russia.

"However long conditions are favorable, we should meet and talk," Zelensky said in a tweet, adding that he concurred with Macron to keep up the speed of discretionary discussions.

Zelensky's comments came even as Russian President Vladimir Putin attested that the United States and NATO had not tended to the Kremlin's fundamental security requests in the East-West deadlock over Ukraine, yet that Moscow was prepared to proceed with the discussions.