WAR NEWS: ‘President Zelensky Has No Sense’ –  South Korea 

The ruling party presidential candidate of South Korea, Lee Jae-myung on Tuesday came under fire for appearing to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Russia’s invasion of the country.

Taoheed says Lee is of the liberal Democratic Party (DP). While making the controversial remarks at a TV presidential debate earlier on Friday, he tried to underscore the political inexperience of main opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol of the conservative People Power Party.

“In Ukraine, a novice politician of six months became president and declared (Ukraine’s) accession to NATO, which provoked Russia and eventually led to a clash,’’ Lee said.

Mouthpiece News NGR covers that the remark unleashed a torrent of criticism on the U.S. social media platform, Reddit, after a video of the debate appeared beside a translation of Lee’s comments.

Critics berated the candidate for failing to see the crisis for what it was, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and instead putting the blame on Zelenskyy.

Yoon wrote on Facebook on Saturday that what Lee said was an “international disgrace’’ and that he apologised to the Ukrainian people “as a presidential candidate of the Republic of Korea.’’

Lee scrambled to defuse the controversy by issuing his own apology.

“Before any other presidential candidate, I plainly criticised Russia’s invasion and expressed my support for Ukraine,’’ he also wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“However, if I unintentionally caused even a partial misunderstanding among the Ukrainian people, it was due to my lack