Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Thursday appealed to the Russian people to stop President Volodymyr Putin from continuing the war against Ukraine.

Volodymyr ZelenskyiPhoto: press service of the President of Ukraine / AP – The Associated Press / Profimedia

“The price of the fact that one person in Russia wants to continue this war will be that the entire Russian society will be left without a normal economy, without a decent life and without respect for any human values,” Zelensky said in his address on Thursday evening at address to the nation at the end of each day, CNN reports.

“It can still be stopped. And to do that, you have to stop that one person in Russia who wants war more than life. Your lives are yours, citizens of Russia,” said the head of the Ukrainian state.

Zelensky again rejected attempts to annex four Ukrainian territories occupied by Russians. “Russia will not get new territories in Ukraine,” he said.

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