Zelensky: Possible nuclear strike on Ukraine's President's Office should be followed by strike on decision-making center in Russia

KYIV. Oct 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – If Russia launches a nuclear strike on the President’s Office of Ukraine, the world must respond with a blow to the decision-making center in Russia, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Canadian television channels CTV and CBC.

"You and I constantly hear calls that Russia should strike at the decision-making centers [in Ukraine]. How should the world respond? It does not matter whether Ukraine is a NATO country or not NATO. This is happening today on the European continent. No one is allowed to just blackmail like a terrorist. If the message is that there will be a blow to the decision-making center, then the answer of the world should be as follows: look, if you hit Bankova, then there will be a blow where you are. A blow to ones who gives the task to kill people," Zelensky said.

"If you do this, you should know that in a second, despite the consequences of your blow, there will be a blow to your decision-making center, in your state. This is not blackmail. It is a matter of someone threatening you, but the one who threatens must know about it. It’s like some person who kills another person on the street. Or robs. Before he robs or kills, he knows that he will go to jail, because he is guilty," the president said.

Zelensky said that one can talk about humanism for a long time, but Ukraine lives "in such a situation and with such a neighbor who understands nothing but force."

At the same time, the Russian society, according to him, should know that their president is killing Ukrainian citizens.

"If you do not put pressure on your president, the world will be isolated from you. The world will not talk to you because you speak the language of threats. You will not have a rest abroad, earn money, have business with Europe, Canada, the United States. You support the power of a terrorist," he said.