Zelensky harshly criticized the UN and the Putin summit in Kazan.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at the third parliamentary summit of the Crimea Platform, which is being held in the city of Riga, Republic of Latvia.

According to Zelensky, the support of Ukraine by other countries testifies to the fact that the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin failed to make the international crime part of the norm for peoples. He emphasized that the number of state flags in the hall indicates Russia's failure since 2014.

"It was from the seizure of Crimea that Russia's attack on the international legal system began, but to steal the land of another people, deport those who resist, and break the life of an entire nation, that is, everything that Russia does, will never be accepted by the international community. For all states, it is equally valuable to maintain sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the right to determine their own future. The UN Charter is based on this. Not on the fact that someone can decide whether to burn the life of a neighboring people or deport it, as Moscow has repeatedly done, and with the peoples of our region, but on completely different goals, different principles," the leader of Ukraine said.

Zelensky noted that the one who unites peoples based on human values and the UN Charter will win, not a criminal who destroys and deports. He stressed that if Ukraine completes this war fairly, then any other nation, against which similar aggression may be planned, will have the support of the world and the defense of international law.

Zelensky reminded that United Nations Day lights up the whole world, not just Kazan, where the Putin summit is taking place. He emphasized that cooperation formats such as the Crimea Platform or the Peace Summit are important for protecting the goals of the UN.

Earlier, Zelensky named the first step towards ending the active phase of the war with Russia.