Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Says Russian President Putin Needs to Leave His ‘Bubble’

Yesterday, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he can only talk with Russian President Putin once he returns to the “real world.” Unfortunately this isn’t the first time that a leader has said Putin was ‘out of touch’ with reality when it comes to his motives during the war in Ukraine. Putin has said the invasion began to protect Russian speakers from genocide at the hands of ‘neo-Nazis’ despite having no real evidence. In March, U.S. intelligence officers said that Putin’s advisers were not informing him about the status of the war including his country’s failures on the battlefield. Zelenskyy also said that he would talk with Putin directly ‘with no intermediaries, or brokers.’