The President of Ukraine has warned that Putin will die a beaten man in his latest speech.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy mocked claims that the Ukraine and Russia war could last for three decades.
The Ukrainian reckons the war will never last that long as Vladimir Putin won’t live that many years.
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Zelenskyy, 45, said: “It can’t, Putin won't live that many years.
“He did not fight in Syria at the pace he is fighting us.
“That is why he will not stand 30 years. He will not exist, he will die. This, obviously, is absolute.”
He believes that 70-year-old Putin won't live another decade – following several rumours about the Russian leader's poor health, none of which have been confirmed.
Zelensky added: “[Putin] won’t survive even ten years. He is not that figure.”
He told Brazil’s TV Globo that Putin’s forces realise “deep down” that they cannot win, and that their desire to subjugate Ukraine is hopeless.
“All their actions on the battlefield indicate that today Russia is not able to completely occupy Ukraine and destroy us,” he said.
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“Their desires are the same.
“But deep down in their hearts, they all already realise that they can no longer. They cannot.”
He added: “They were capable at the beginning of it. They thought they would.
“And we did something inside the state and from outside that we were able to become stronger than them.”
Zelenskyy vowed that he and his generation would resist any future bid by Russia to regroup and seek to defeat Ukraine.
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“As long as we are alive, we will not let them become as strong as they were,” he said.
The Ukrainian leader said the long-running war in Syria was a tragedy but Russia’s aggression in Ukraine was on a different scale.
And he downplayed his heroism in standing up to Putin.
“The entire army of the Russian Federation is fighting Ukraine today,” he said. “The whole army came to our land.
“The skeleton of this army was destroyed to the maximum by the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian people at the front and on the streets, as happened in the first days of the occupation.
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“So things are a little different. I do not think that the world has united around the Syrian tragedy. I believe it was a mistake.
“And it is always a big mistake when the world thinks that the war is somewhere far away. I don't think it's my heroism that I united the countries that are helping us today.
“No, I believe that it is every person in our state who, in his place, has done something that is very important at a very important moment. This is both desire and coincidence.
“And our devotion is absolute devotion, freedom or death.”
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