More Zelensky Wartime Rhetoric

This has been reported on social media as a message from Zelensky to the Russian people. Over the course of the war, he seems to be giving fewer formal addresses, and instead, somewhat like Trump, he's relying on shorter Twitter-style posts. The original source of this one appears to be hard to trace, but a reddit comment carries what is claimed to be the most reliable text:

Even through the impenetrable darkness, Ukraine and the civilized world clearly see these terrorist acts.

Deliberate and cynical missile strikes on civilian critical infrastructure. No military facilities. Kharkiv and Donetsk regions were cut off. In Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy there are partial problems with power supply.

Do you still think that we are "one people"? Do you still think that you can scare us, break us, make us make concessions? You really did not understand anything? Don't understand who we are? What are we for? What are we talking about?

Read my lips:

Without gas or without you? without you

Without light or without you? without you

Without water or without you? without you

Without food or without you? without you

Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as scary and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood".

But history will put everything in its place. And we will be with gas, light, water and food. . . and WITHOUT you!

Another interesting development is that reporters have begun to notice that since last month, Ukraine has been putting captured Russian military equipment back into service without full repaint or refurbishment, simply crossing out the "Z" sign and replacing it with a cross. According to the link,

The choice of the cross has a certain logic, since it is an easy symbol to distinguish from the Z, and also the emblem of the Ukrainian Armed Forces includes a cross. It should also be borne in mind that Ukraine is a predominantly Christian country (around 80% of Ukrainians belong to different Christian denominations).

What sort of Christian denominations remains to shake out. Orthodoxy is undergoing a schism in the wake of the Russo-Ukraine war, and as I've noted in passing, explicitly Russian Orthodox writers like Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn are being reevaluated in Ukraine in light of contemporary Russian Orthodox support for imperialist, and indeed genocidal, Russian policies toward Ukraine.

On the other hand, Zelensky, a nominal Jew, has recognized Ukraine's strong Jewish heritage as well as its Christian population, but I suspect the cross would not have been used on military equipment without his approval.