Volodymyr Zelenskyj provokes with a T-shirt: “Make Russia small again”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj thanked his Western allies for the new billions in aid. The 50 billion US dollars (around 46 billion euros) from the G7 countries will help Ukraine with its defense and resilience, as Zelensky said in his evening video message broadcast in Kiev. He wore a T-shirt with the inscription “make russia small again” (in German: Make Russia small again). Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a photo of it on Telegram and called Zelensky a “complete idiot.”

Zelensky is pushing for the billions in aid to be paid quickly

Zelensky emphasized that the money had to flow this year to help Ukraine in its defense fight against the Russian war of aggression, which has been going on for almost 1,000 days. The group of seven major economic nations includes the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and Japan. $20 billion comes from the USA alone, $20 billion from the EU states and $10 billion from Great Britain, Canada and Japan.

Russia is supposed to pay for this indirectly. The loan is secured by interest income from frozen Russian state assets. It’s about a package that the G7 states and representatives of the European Union decided on at a summit in June.

Russia has described the freezing of its assets abroad and the skimming of interest income as robbery that “does not go unpunished.” Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin also wants to answer questions from the media this Thursday at the end of the Brics summit of emerging industrial nations in Kazan and is expected to once again comment on his war against Ukraine.

Sources: DPA,