Embattled Ukrainian President Zelensky told Stanford students his country is going through a “painful path” he hopes will lead to peace.
STANFORD — In a live-streamed video address to Stanford students on Friday, embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered his condolences to Americans following the deadly Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting that left 19 students and two adults dead.
Since February 24 when Russian soldiers poured over the Ukrainian border to go to war with their neighbors, at least 46,000 people have died, approximately 13,000 have been injured and nearly 7 million people have fled the country in what is Europe’s most intense conflict and refugee crisis since World War II.
Tensions have been high in Ukraine for more than a decade now. At the start of the war in 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea and backed Russian separatists in the eastern region of the country. Fear increased after the Russian military began a large build-up of troops along its border with Ukraine, amassing some 190,000 troops and equipment. When the invasion occurred, many believes Russia would sweep through Ukraine and take the country over.
Zelensky’s Stanford address comes as Russian forces slowly gained ground in eastern Ukraine, taking over the city of Lyman and coming closer to surrounding the much larger city of Sievierodonetsk, according to the New York Times. Zelensky spoke of a family killed during the conflict this week, noting that the Russian military has been consistently shelling residential buildings at the cost of civilian lives.
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