British analyst claims Zelenskyy has left Kyiv after Russian warning

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reportedly left Kyiv following warnings from the Russian Foreign Ministry about potential retaliatory strikes targeting decision-making centres, according to British military analyst Alexander Mercurius.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Mercurius suggested that Zelenskyy’s departure from the Ukrainian capital in response to perceived threats reflects what he described as a recurring pattern of behaviour.

According to the analyst, Zelenskyy tends to leave Kyiv when there are indications of escalating danger. Mercurius claimed that the president had done so on previous occasions and characterised such actions as habitual.

"One person who might be heeding the Russian warnings, however, is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as he regularly does. He has left Kyiv at the first opportunity, and there have been some sour comments across the media, I should say, independent media, that this is fairly typical of Zelenskyy; he tends to stay away from Kyiv when there are signs of trouble. Anyway, I'm not exactly certain of his movements, but it does seem that he went to Sweden, spent some time there, and had a meeting with the Swedish government," he said.

He also commented more broadly on the situation in Ukraine, arguing that the country’s population is facing difficult circumstances and suggesting that, under the current government, their ability to influence developments is limited.

By Tamilla Hasanova