Volodímir Zelenski has made an appeal in the Congress of Deputies for Europe to tighten the sanctions on Vladimir Putin for his “war crimes against humanity”. The President of Ukraine, who has intervened by videoconference this Tuesday in the Lower House, has alluded to the bombing of Guernica by the Nazis to show the suffering of the Ukrainian people. “We are in April 2022, but it seems like April 1937 in Guernica”, has said.
Zelenski has addressed the Chamber through five televisions located in the hemicycle, after doing the same since the beginning of the Russian invasion in more than a dozen national parliaments and the Grammy gala. United States, France, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Israel, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden… The list before Spain is extensive, with a supporting role on the tour of the Ukrainian president in his call for help.
Zelenski’s speech stresses Podemos and portrays its contradictions
I. S. Calleja
The purple party insists that sending military weapons to Ukraine is not the solution. The appearance coincides with the images of the Bucha massacre and the Brussels genocide investigation
The intervention, however, coincides with a key moment in the development of the war. The Ukrainian president has spoken to the deputies and senators of all the parties with representation after knowing the bucha massacre, known once the Russian troops have left the city. Brussels has already announced urgent sanctions against Vladimir Putin for what has been classified as war crimes, with the discovery of at least 340 bodies in summary executions.
His speech, fifteen minutes late due to a delay in his address to the UN Security Council, has caused some tension in some parliamentary groups due to their positions and contradictions on the war. The most obvious is Podemos, which, although it has shown its support for Zelenski’s appearance, has insisted that sending military weapons (as he requests) is not the solution. Just a few hours after the videoconference, the differences between the purples and the PSOE became even more notable. The spokesman for the federal executive of the Socialists, Felipe Sicilia, repeated at an informative breakfast in Seville that Spain cannot remain “impassive” in the face of the Ukrainian tragedy and advocated sending “offensive and defensive weapons”, according to EP.