{"id":1334238,"date":"2022-02-23T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T00:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1334238"},"modified":"2022-02-23T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:07:45","slug":"you-will-see-our-faces-not-our-backs-ukraines-president-zelensky-says-putin-has-ordered-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-will-see-our-faces-not-our-backs-ukraines-president-zelensky-says-putin-has-ordered-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Will See Our Faces, Not Our Backs\u201d \u2013 Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky Says Putin Has Ordered Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-will-see-our-faces-not-our-backs-ukraines-president-zelensky-says-putin-has-ordered-invasion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1334238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1645662985725.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an impassioned address on Wednesday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an invasion of his country but that if Russia attacks, &#8220;you will see our faces, not our backs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news: <\/strong>Ukraine entered a state of emergency on Wednesday as the Pentagon warned that Russia&#8217;s preparations for invasion appear to be complete, and Ukrainian citizens prepared for war.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kremlin has closed a portion of the border to civilian aircraft and published a request from separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine asking for Russian troops to &#8220;help beat back&#8221; the Ukrainian armed forces. <\/li>\n<li>Those forces have faced days of shelling in the east but have reportedly resisted any response that could be painted by Moscow as a provocation.<\/li>\n<li>That has not stopped Russian state TV from running images of supposed Ukrainian attacks, some of them <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"rather ham-fisted\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakluge\/status\/1496521293126066181\" data-vars-content-id=\"3e5b8783-c4b6-41e9-b6d5-b0706bfedfdf\" data-vars-headline=\"Zelensky says Putin has ordered invasion\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakluge\/status\/1496521293126066181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rather ham-fisted<\/a>, and banging the drum for war. Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"warned\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DmytroKuleba\/status\/1496578668411428864\" data-vars-content-id=\"3e5b8783-c4b6-41e9-b6d5-b0706bfedfdf\" data-vars-headline=\"Zelensky says Putin has ordered invasion\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DmytroKuleba\/status\/1496578668411428864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> of a potential &#8220;staged provocation&#8221; at a chemical plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The latest: <\/strong>Commercial airports in eastern Ukraine have suspended operations, including in Kharkiv, a city of nearly 1.5 million just south of the Russian border.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What he&#8217;s saying: <\/strong>In what may be the final hours before a broader invasion begins, Zelensky revealed that he had tried to call Putin but been met with &#8220;silence.&#8221; He addressed the Russian people in Russian to make an appeal for peace, while acknowledging the need to prepare for war.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Putin&#8217;s invasion order, the smallest spark could start a &#8220;big war&#8221; and &#8220;burn everything down,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;You are told that this flame will liberate the people of Ukraine, but the Ukrainian people are free.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Zelensky said the Russian people have been told he and his citizens are Nazis, despite the fact that his grandfather fought the Nazis in the Soviet infantry. <\/li>\n<li>He said Russians have falsely been told both that Ukrainians hate Russian culture and have no culture of their own. &#8220;We are different, but that is not a reason to be enemies,&#8221; he said.<\/li>\n<li>He said Ukraine had never been and never will be a threat to Russia, and while Russia would never allow his speech to be shown on Russian television, &#8220;the people of Russia need to see it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Between the lines: <\/strong>Zelensky&#8217;s speech was a clear rebuttal to Putin&#8217;s combative and historically revisionist hour-long address on Monday, in which he effectively asserted Russia&#8217;s right to bend Ukraine to its will and erase its independence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zelensky spent weeks downplaying the risk of an imminent invasion in order to avoid panic, but has now adopted the tone of a president preparing his country for war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go deeper:<\/strong> <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"The latest on the Russia-Ukraine crisis\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/russia-ukraine-invasion-putin-live-updates-873196c6-15a2-47a0-8360-e3db5af96b3c.html\" data-vars-content-id=\"3e5b8783-c4b6-41e9-b6d5-b0706bfedfdf\" data-vars-headline=\"Zelensky says Putin has ordered invasion\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/russia-ukraine-invasion-putin-live-updates-873196c6-15a2-47a0-8360-e3db5af96b3c.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">The latest on the Russia-Ukraine crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an impassioned address on Wednesday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an invasion of his country but that if Russia attacks, &#8220;you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}