Zelensky commented on Assad's escape to Russia: 'Where will Putin escape?'.

Zelensky expressed his position on Assad's escape to Russia and drew parallels with Putin

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky shared his opinion on Syrian President Bashar Assad fleeing to Russia. He compared the regimes of Assad and Putin on Human Rights Day.

Zelensky pointed out the similarity of methods used by these two dictators to suppress their people. 'Brave Assad fled to Putin. Where will Putin flee?' - wrote the Ukrainian president on social media.

According to Zelensky, after Assad's escape, prisons and torture sites were discovered in Syria, where people had been tormented for many years. 'People were degraded there for many years. Men and women were beaten, tortured, and raped. Thousands suffered because of this center of violence,' he said.

The president reminded that Russia employs similar methods in the occupied territories of Ukraine. He mentioned the repression in Crimea against Crimean Tatars in 2014, human rights violations in occupied Donbas, and the prison 'Isolation'.

'Since February 2022, Russia has started to apply these methods in all other occupied territories. Brutalities and crimes have increased,' Zelensky emphasized.

The head of state stated that Assad and Putin are accomplices in violence and called on the international community for unity in countering such regimes.