Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Europe’s World War II

On Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, which killed thousands and displaced millions on February 24, ended 77 years of peace. Ukraine, II. He fought alongside Russia as part of the Soviet Union in World War II.

The video speech, recorded in front of apartments charred by Russian missile attacks, comes the day before Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin celebrated the Soviet victory with a large military parade.

“Decades after the Second World War, darkness has returned to Ukraine. Evil is back,” said Zelensky. “In a different way, under different slogans but for the same purpose”

“No evil can escape responsibility, hide in a bunker,” he said.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler spent the last days of his life in a bunker in Berlin, where he committed suicide in the last days of the war.

Zelenskiy did not name Putin in his entire speech, but used harsh language to express his fear of destruction.

Moscow describes its actions as a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine and liberate it from the anti-Russian nationalism that Russia calls “Nazis” and backed by the West.

Ukraine and the West say that Russia launched a war of aggression for no reason and dismisses the rhetoric about the Nazis as propaganda.