Zelenskyy says ‘sit next to me I don’t bite’ in dig at Putin’s long table
Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to mock Vladimir Putin during a fresh appeal for peace talks to put an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
In a press conference on Friday (March 4) the 44-year-old president of Ukraine goads Putin and asks why he is afraid of sitting near other world leaders.
"Get off our land. You don't want to leave now? Then sit down with me at the negotiation table. I'm available.
"Sit. Just not 30 metres away like you welcomed Macron, and Scholz, and others. I am your neighbour. You don't need to keep me at a 30 metre distance.
"I don't bite. I'm a normal bloke. Sit down with me and talk. What are you afraid of?
"We aren't threatening anyone, we're not terrorists, we aren't seizing banks and seizing foreign land."
Putin's infamous white table became a joke and an internet meme after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier this year.
The 20ft-long table was made in Italy from white beach and gold leaf and imported over to Russia more than two decades ago.
It's estimated to be worth at least £100,000 and political pundits have debated if it is used as an intimation tactic by making Putin seem distant and unreadable.
Russia has been ramping up its assault on Ukraine after the intial invasion was less succesful than Putin had hoped.
The warmonger and his cronies have made subtle threats to use nuclear weapons if NATO interferes by sending troops to help the Ukrainians.
Meanwhile, terrified Brits have been trying to get nuclear bunkers fitted in their own back gardens – with one manufacturer saying he now gets 20 calls a day.
Charles Hardman, who owns Subterranean Spaces, told the Daily Star: "I have had one woman on the phone crying to me about how worried she is over the possibility of nuclear war breaking out."
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that World War Three would be "nuclear and destructive" and Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrent on "high alert".
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