The Ukrainian leader had been given detailed information on Russia's invasion from U.S. officials. But he said telling the public would've backfired.
and other U.S. officials increasingly sounded the alarm that Russia would launch an invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during his joint press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausda on July 28, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Zelensky revealed why he publicly downplayed the risk of an invasion by Russia.Heavily dependent on Western military aid, Zelensky sought to maintain relations with the U.S. while also criticizing America's warnings of a Russian incursion as an"exaggeration.
Zelensky added that threats of war meant"panic in the market, panic in the financial sector. How much does it cost our country?"Post , Zelensky explained that telling the Ukrainian public to store food and money in preparation for war would have paradoxically meant a swift victory for Russia. "You can't simply say to me, 'Listen, you should start to prepare people now and tell them they need to put away money, they need to store up food,'" Zelensky told the paper."If we had communicated that—and that is what some people wanted, who I will not name—then I would have been losing $7 billion a month since last October, and at the moment when the Russians did attack, they would have taken us in three days.
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