ZELENSKYY MENTIONED SARAJEVO IN 1914 AND GAVRILO PRINCIP: The words of the Ukrainian president echoed, THIS WAS HIS CENTRAL MESSAGE

Speaking about the situation in his country, which was hit by its powerful neighbour on 24vFebruary this year, Zelenskyy referred to historical events that contributed to dramatic changes in the world - the Sarajevo assassination in 1914 and the Munich Agreement in 1938 - which preceded the outbreak of two world wars.

-  It remembers, for example, how just a few shots can lead to millions of casualties. If these were the shots on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo. History remembers how much grief one person’s evil can cause if he sees that he is not being resisted enough. As it was, for example, in 1938 in Munich - Zelenskyy said. 

Zelenskyy then called for additional sanctions against Russia.

- We need to change the approach. Not to react, but to act. Complete blocking of all banks without exception - all. Complete abandonment of the Russian IT sector. Complete cessation of trade with the aggressor - the Ukrainian president said. 

He added that maximum pressure must be exerted so that each aggressor knows the consequences of their actions, and called for all Russian assets scattered in different jurisdictions to be found, arrested or frozen, and then confiscated and sent to a special fund for all the victims of the war.