Zelenskyy: Ukraine will not forgive Russia for invasion, shelling
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not forgive Russia for all the casualties and sufferings the war it started had caused, accusing Russian forces of targeting civilians.Zelenskyy made the comments during an address on “Forgiveness Sunday” – a special religious day on which, according to the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition, people ask each other for forgiveness“We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war on our land,” he said. “There will be no quiet place on this Earth except the grave,” Zelekskyy said in his speech. “Today a family was killed in Irpin – man, woman and two children. Right on the road. As in a shooting gallery. When they tried to just get out of the city, to be saved. Whole family,” the Ukrainian president said.The mayor of Irpin, a small town outside the capital, Kyiv, described seeing two adults and two children killed “in front of my eyes” when a shell hit them.“It is impudence, they are monsters. Irpin is at war, Irpin has not surrendered,” Oleksandr Markushyn said on Telegram, adding that part of the city was in Russian hands. Zelenskyy also denounced what he branded the “silence” of Western governments failing to speak out on the invasion, now in its twelfth day.At least 364 civilians have been killed and 759 others injured in Ukraine since Russia launched the war on February 24, according to United Nations figures, with the real death toll feared to be higher.