Zelensky compares fight against Russia to fight against Nazis

On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has compared his country's current defence against a Russian invasion to Ukrainian efforts to defeat Nazi Germany.

"Eighty years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever," he said in a video message recorded during his Wednesday visit to the town of Yahidne in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv, the scene of an alleged Russian war crime in 2022. "But today Ukrainians are once again standing against the evil that has been reborn, has come back and wants to destroy us again."