Maria Zakharova pointed to Kiev’s silence regarding Ukraine refusing a thousand POWs MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has been fighting not against Russia but against the Ukrainian people in order "to destroy it," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. "Zelensky is not fighting against Russia. Zelensky is fighting against the Ukrainian people. And his mission which was prescribed for him by someone is to destroy the Ukrainian nation, and to destroy it