Volodymyr Zelensky jokes about Crimea bridge explosion during nightly address

Volodymyr Zelensky made a slight joke about an explosion which caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia as he made his nightly address on Saturday (8 October).

"Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state, in a large area, about 20 degrees, warm and sunny," the Ukrainian president said.

"Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea, although it is also warm."

The explosion on the Kerch Bridge damaged an important supply artery for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort.

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[Shabbirhasanshanto]

Ukraine is the perfect example of putting a comedian into the power.

[RemyPlay]

He's happy because of all the hand outs he's getting from Nato.

[raedgh]

Good morning Zelensky, how's the weather looking today?

[SRC]

It's a shame he's making jokes about the bridge. In fact I can't get over it.

[bojanstojicevic]

ZELENSKY...The Man Who Accidentally KiILLED The Most People In UKRAINA.
HE DOESN'T KNOW to STOP ... CONVINCED that HE is THE STRONGEST MAN in THE WORLD.

ACTOR ONCE - FOREVER ACTOR.
GOD HELP UKRAINIANS to SURVIVE with ZELENSKY!!!
S T O P T H E W A R...ANY WAR

[сумпат]

The Minsk agreements had to be implemented. Neither Macron nor Merkel were interested in resolving the conflict. Cheap intermediaries. And Poroshenko and Zelensky ignored them.

[sayitloudlynothing]

Surely he knew the Russia would strike back 10 times as hard

[AndrejKovrigin]

He killed 3 Ukrainians on that bridge, and made jokes.

[MrJonathanainsworth]

Anyone going to condemn him for joking about an attack in which three civilians were killed? No, of course not.

[EhsanMusic]

They released stamps with the blown up bridge just hours after the explosion and one of their bank already has a new bank card with the same design. Obviously this was Ukrainian terror. Laughing and joking at the death of 3 innocent people. Disgusting. He won't be joking for long.

[henryschwaiger]

Yes, really funny, innocent lives lost and his countrymen in panic over fuel and food. Still he is meant to be a comedian I guess.

[herzog]

One day has passed and it's not so funny anymore. Good morning Ukraine

[joshuawood]

Even if they told you it was a lie, most people wouldn’t be able to see it.

[norbertk.]

This is so cryptic that if they don't say this is a "joke" about the explosion I wouldn't figure it out even with the most advanced decryption software.

[revelation]

So the people in Crimea stuck and his making a joke. Watch, Putin will get him and make joke out of him.

[Tabbyh]

Was it cloudy in Ukraine a few days after?

[amun-ra]

Don't cry for me I'm Zelena
The truth is NATO never loved me
Just wanted my neucs,
NATOs insistence, I kept my promise.

[abenaa]

I didn't hear anything funny here 😸

[Robert-xyxi]

So Zelenskiy by making fun of the situation is saying that Crimea is really ethnic Russian and the people in Crimea are happy to be Russian!
He is not behaving like Crimea people are ethnic Ukrainians!!!
If Crimea was really Ukrainian then the Ukrainian government would not have cut off the water supply to Crimea in 2014!!!They had no care for the local population of Crimea and wanted them to suffer!!!

[stuhar]

Everyone just filling this mugs bank account