Russia Says Ukrainian President Zelensky Left For Poland, Ukraine Refutes Claims

Ukraine refutes Russia's claim, the Ukrainian parliament claims President Zelensky is in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (Source: Getty Images)

New Delhi: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Poland, said Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

"Zelensky left Ukraine. The deputies of the Verkhovna Rada said that they could not get to him in Lviv. Now he is in Poland," he was quoted by Russia Today in its report.

Ukraine refutes Russia's claim, the Ukrainian parliament claims President Zelensky is in Kyiv.

The adviser to the director of Ukraine's presidential office, Mikhail Podolyak, declined to comment on Zelensky's location.

Addressing a press conference in Lviv, he said, "For the safety of the President, we will not distribute information about where he is now. I will also neither refute nor confirm information about his whereabouts."

Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, had stated that the Kyiv regime has largely lost the ability to oversee the administrations of the country's provinces and regions.

"Firstly, the Kyiv regime has almost completely lost the ability to manage the administrations of the regions and districts of the country. Secondly, civil law administrations in cities and towns of Ukraine are deprived of the right to deal with the civilian population, they are unable to solve elementary issues of a social and domestic nature," he said

According to him, national battalions of so-called territorial defence are rampaging in most Ukrainian cities and towns, commanded by "Nazis and mercenaries who joined them, terrorists and robbers, including those of foreign origin."

(With RT Inputs)