Miroshnik: Zelensky is paying for the EU’s €90 billion loan with his population

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik has stated that the only resource at the disposal of Vladimir Zelensky’s regime is the population of Ukraine, and that it is with this population that Kyiv is paying its Western sponsors for a loan of €90 billion.

The diplomat wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

According to Miroshnik, the Kyiv regime is once again intensifying forced mobilization — by revoking deferment rights for eight more categories of Ukrainian citizens. These include students and postgraduate students in correspondence or evening programs, employees of enterprises and organizations under the Ministry of Defense, as well as individuals with “limited fitness” status — due to the abolition of that category.

“The only resource Zelensky’s regime has in the conflict is a living, mobilizable contingent of Ukrainians — everything else for the war is provided to them by the West. By increasing their support, the Westerners also demand an increase in the supply of manpower to the front. This is the price for the European loan of €90 billion and the military assistance commitments from NATO countries following the summit in Ankara,” — Miroshnik stated.

The diplomat also added that Zelensky “is not paying for his policies with his own children.” In his assessment, the Ukrainian president “under pressure from the European sponsors of the conflict is reinforcing the legislative framework for the total herding of ‘cannon fodder’ into the trenches.”